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The immigration handbook / Caroline Smith.
Van Pelt Library PR6119.M565 A6 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Caroline, 1958- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emigration and immigration--Poetry.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 72 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Brigend, Wales : Seren, 2016.
- Summary:
- Vividly detailed and emotionally powerful, The Immigration Handbook is as revealing as it is timely. Here we meet with the individual that the news stories only speak of as numbers. These are lives fraught with violence and tragedy that Caroline Smith has encounters in her work as the asylum caseworker for a London MP. We journey with them through the labyrinthine government bureaucracies they must navigate to survive. With clarity and integrity she lays before us stories of stoic resilience and humorous forbearance, of kindness to others and of joy in the midst of sorrow. These are poems that step out of the headlines and into our hearts. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- On Hold 9
- The Boxer 10
- The Scarlet Lizard 11
- Lime Tree Honey 12
- IS 96 13
- Brook Court 14
- Teenager 15
- Eaton House 17
- Citizenship Ceremony 18
- Luck 19
- Selection 20
- Red Road Flats 21
- The Pilgrimage 22
- The Jumper 24
- Asylum Documents 25
- Mrs Shah's Complaint 26
- The Administrative Removal Officer 27
- Jozef Rexha - salesman 28
- Judicial Consideration 29
- Settlement 30
- Delay 31
- Pro Bono 1 32
- Pro Bono 2 33
- Fault Line 34
- Tangiers 35
- Spouse Visa 37
- Removal 38
- Valerie 39
- Answer Machine 40
- Apology 41
- Judgements 42
- The Strange Tale of the Immigration Judge & the Carpet Seller of Kampala 43
- Note on Home Office file 46
- Domestic worker 47
- Home Office Files 48
- Nativity 49
- Ali 50
- Removal Directions 51
- Heron Hats 53
- Advice Surgery in the Methodist Church Hall 54
- Letters 56
- Mr Giang 57
- Nursery Tales 58
- Father 59
- Omnipotence 60
- Dr Gopal 61
- Surgery Note 1 62
- Surgery Note 2 63
- Appeal judge 64
- Asylum Interview 65
- New email address 66
- Promise 67
- Chance 68
- Stamps 69.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781781723210
- 1781723214
- OCLC:
- 951227550
- Publisher Number:
- 99970190241
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