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Cast away : true stories of survival from Europe's refugee crisis / Charlotte McDonald-Gibson.
Van Pelt Library HV640.4.E8 M395 2016
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- 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
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