Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees - Couverture souple

Moorehead, Caroline

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099492873 ISBN 13 : 9780099492870

Editeur : Vintage, 2006

Synopsis

Human Cargo is a remarkable oral testament. Caroline Moorehead has visited war zones, camps and prisons from Guinea and Afghanistan to Texas and Italy. She has interviewed emigration officials and members of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Geneva while investigating the fates of the 17 million people currently displaced from their homes. How can society cope with this diaspora of the twenty-first century? Is there a difference between 'good' asylum seekers and 'bad' economic migrants? What happens to those whose applications are turned down? The difficult questions are asked, the horrible issues faced. But, above all, Human Cargo celebrates the courage and will to survive shown by ordinary human beings.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Caroline Moorehead is a bestselling and prize-winning author, and the biographer of Bertrand Russell, Freya Stark, Iris Origo, Madame de la Tour du Pin and Martha Gellhorn. Her recent books – a quartet focused on resistance to dictatorship, particularly in Italy and France – were shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Orwell Prize and the Costa Biography Award. She lives in London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0099492873
• ISBN 13: 9780099492870
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
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