Cast away : true stories of survival from Europe's refugee crisis / Charlotte McDonald-Gibson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McDonald-Gibson, Charlotte, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refugees--Europe.

Refugees.

Emigration and immigration.

History.

Refugees--Legal status, laws, etc.

Europe.

Refugees--Mediterranean Region.

Refugees--Legal status, laws, etc--Europe.

Europe--Emigration and immigration--History--21st century.

Mediterranean Region--Emigration and immigration--History--21st century.

Mediterranean Region.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 336 pages : map ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : The New Press, 2016.

Summary:

"In one of the first works of narrative nonfiction on the ongoing refugee crisis ... [this book] describes the ... stories and the ... decisions that migrants have to make as they head toward what they believe is a better life: a pregnant Eritrean woman, four days overdue, chooses to board an obviously unsafe smugglers ship to Greece; a father, swimming from a sinking ship, has to decide whether to hold on to one child or let him go to save another"--Amazon.com.

Contents:

2011. A dictator's revenge ; Into the storm ; Welcome to Europe

2012. Married to the military ; Sleeping on the roofs of police stations ; Three friends

2013. A family betrayal ; An indefinable suffering ; Never again ; Fortress Europe ; Our sea ; Europe turns ugly ; Escaping 13V105

2014. Hunted ; All alone ; A very long transit ; A lifeline cut off

2015. ghosts on the horizon ; At the crossroads of Europe ; Dark thoughts ; A moral emergency ; Lockdown

Epilogue: No direction home.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-333).

ISBN:

9781620972632

1620972638

OCLC:

952942780