(P/B) CAST AWAY
STORIES OF SURVIVAL FROM EUROPE'S REFUGEE CRISIS
MCDONALD-GIBSON CHARLOTTEΚωδ. Πολιτείας: 3309-0014
Παρουσίαση
Riot police are shutting down borders, 800 lives are lost in a single shipwreck, a boy's body washes up on a beach: this is the European Union in summer 2015. But how did a bloc founded upon the values of human rights and dignity for all reach this point? And what was driving millions of desperate people to risk their lives on the Mediterranean? Charlotte McDonald-Gibson has spent years reporting on every aspect of Europe's refugee crisis, and Cast Away offers a vivid glimpse of the personal dilemmas, pressures, choices and hopes that lie beneath the headlines.We meet Majid, a Nigerian boy who exchanges the violence of his homeland for Libya, only to be driven onto a rickety boat during Colonel Gaddafi's crackdown on migrants. Nart is an idealistic young lawyer who risks imprisonment and torture in Syria until it is no longer safe for him to stay. Sina has to leave her new husband behind and take their unborn son across three continents to try and escape the Eritrean dictatorship. Mohammed is a teenager who dreams of becoming the world's best electrician until he is called to serve as a foot-soldier in the Syrian army. And Hanan watches in horror as the safe life she built for her four children in Damascus collapses, and she has to entrust their lives to people smugglers.
While the politicians wrangle over responsibility, and the media talk in statistics, Cast Away brings to life the human consequences of the most urgent humanitarian issue of our time. (From the publisher)
Περιεχόμενα
List of country codesMap
List of people
Introduction
2011
1. A dictator's revenge
2. Into the storm
3. Welcome to Europe
2012
4. Married to the military
5. Sleeping on the roofs of police stations
6. Three friends
2013
7. A family betrayal
8. An indefinable suffering
9. Never again
10. Fortress Europe
11. Our sea
12. Europe turns ugly
13. Escaping 13V105
2014
14. Hunted
15. All alone
16. A very long transit
17. A lifeline cut off
2015
18. Ghosts on the horizon
19. At the crossroads of Europe
20. Dark thoughts
21. A moral emergency
22. Lockdown
Epilogue: No direction home
Glossary
Sources
Acknowledgements
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