Two unaccompanied children travel across the Mediterranean in an overcrowded boat that has been designed to only make it halfway acrossâ€¦Â A 63-year-old man is woken

Refugee Tales

Two unaccompanied children travel across the Mediterranean in an overcrowded boat that has been designed to only make it halfway acrossâ€¦
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A 63-year-old man is woken one morning by border officers â€˜acting on a tip-offâ€™ and, despite having paid taxes for 28 years, is suddenly cast into the detention system with no obvious means of escapeâ€¦
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An orphan whose entire life has been spent in slavery â€“ first on a Ghanaian farm, then as a victim of trafficking â€“ writes to the Home Office for help, only to be rewarded with a jail sentence and indefinite detentionâ€¦
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These are not fictions. Nor are they testimonies from some distant, brutal past, but the frighteningly common experiences of Europeâ€™s new underclass â€“ its refugees. While those with "citizenship" enjoy basic human rights (like the right not to be detained without charge for more than 14 days), people seeking asylum can be suspended for years in Kafka-esque uncertainty. Here, poets and novelists retell the stories of individuals who have direct experience of Britainâ€™s policy of indefinite immigration detention. Presenting their accounts anonymously, as modern day counterparts to the pilgrimsâ€™ stories in Chaucerâ€™s Canterbury Tales, this book offers rare, intimate glimpses into otherwise untold suffering.
Country USA
Brand Comma Press
Manufacturer AmazonUs/INDPB
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber RKC2009324728
ReleaseDate 2016-07-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781910974230

Country	USA
Brand	Comma Press
Manufacturer	AmazonUs/INDPB
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	RKC2009324728
ReleaseDate	2016-07-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781910974230

Refugee Tales

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