Cast away
Subtitle: true stories of survival from Europe's refugee crisis
By: Charlotte McDonald-Gibson
Publisher: The New Press; New Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781620972632
Subjects: Emigration and immigration; Refugees; Legal status, laws; History
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 2011. A dictator's revenge ; Into the storm ; Welcome to Europe; title: 2012. Married to the military ; Sleeping on the roofs of police stations ; Three friends; title: 2013. A family betrayal ; An indefinable suffering ; Never again ; Fortress Europe ; Our sea ; Europe turns ugly ; Escaping 13V105; title: 2014. Hunted ; All alone ; A very long transit ; A lifeline cut off; title: 2015. ghosts on the horizon ; At the crossroads of Europe ; Dark thoughts ; A moral emergency ; Lockdown; title: Epilogue: No direction home.