Kumar M. Tiku (Independent writer Independent writer)

Gebundenes Buch

Humans on the Run

Of Exiles and Asylums

Beschreibung

A collection of 24 stories that narrate first-person accounts of migrants, refugees, and asylum-seekers affected by multiple displacements due to political or sectarian strife across several countries: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tibet, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Ukraine, Eritrea, and South Sudan. The stories take the reader to the heart of human existence, depicting a sliver of the textured experiences encapsulated in the life of each person on the run.

Autor

Kumar M. Tiku is an independent Indian writer, who has served the United Nations in multiple conflict-affected countries. For over 15 years, Kumar served the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) as a senior external communications professional in India, Afghanistan, Sudan, Fiji and Iraq. He served UNICEF in multiple roles including as Chief of External Communications in Syria. Kumar was born in Srinagar, in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. In 1990, nearly half-a-million strong Kashmiri Pandit community that he belongs to was forced to flee its homeland en masse in the face of a wave of radical extremist militancy. He remains an unrecognized internally-displaced person in India.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 145mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9780199484812
• ISBN-10: 0199484813
• Artikelnr.: 52159769