The re in refuge : essays / Adrianne Kalfopoulou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kalfopoulou, Adrianne, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refuge (Humanitarian assistance)--Social aspects.

Refuge (Humanitarian assistance).

Refuge (Humanitarian assistance)--Political aspects.

Refugees--Social conditions.

Refugees.

Refugees--Public opinion.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

181 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Pasadena, CA : Red Hen Press, [2025]

Summary:

"The re in refuge is a collection of linked essays that investigate ideas of refuge, broadly defined, from the intimacies of romance to the promises of the nation-state. Written over the span of a decade, the collection shapes experiences and events that interrogate their larger political and social contexts. The emerging European refugee crisis, yet to become headline news, frames the opening essays, with stories of those lost in their passage across the Mediterranean. In 2014, Italy and the United Kingdom end funding for naval rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea, and the influx of refugees into Greece reconfigures some of Athens' neighborhoods. A once-abandoned school building becomes a squat where Kalfopoulou and other volunteers engage with refugee communities that include families from Afghanistan, Syria, and Kurdistan. As Kalfopoulou notes in "The Parts Don't Add Up," a visual essay, "embedded in the word refugee is refuge," suggesting that the vectors of shelter have as much to do with what one carries of culture and place as they are about a tangible home"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Kalfopoulou, Adrianne. Re in refuge

ISBN:

9781636282763

1636282768

OCLC:

1467889200