Title Cast away : true stories of survival from Europe's refugee crisis / Charlotte McDonald-Gibson.

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New York : New Press, 2016.

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Description	xiv, 336 pages : map ; 22 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
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.
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.
Subject	Refugees -- 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.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Human Rights.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- World -- European.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
	Emigration and immigration. (OCoLC)fst00908690
	Refugees. (OCoLC)fst01092797
	Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc. (OCoLC)fst01092822
	Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245064
	Mediterranean Region. (OCoLC)fst01239752
Chronological Term	2000-2099
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN	9781620972632 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
	1620972638 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

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