Agus Morales

We Are Not Refugees (eBook, ePUB)

True Stories of the Displaced
Übersetzer: Whittle, Charlotte

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Never in history have so many people been displaced by political and military conflicts at home-more than 65 million globally. Unsparing, outspoken, vital, We Are Not Refugees tells the stories of many of these displaced, who have not been given asylum. "With the keen eye and sharp pen of a reporter, Agus takes us around the world to meet mothers, fathers, [and] children displaced from their homes. Now, more than ever, this is a book that needed to be written and needs to be read." -Ali Noraani, Executive Director of the National Immigration Forum and author of There Goes the Neighborhood: How Communities Overcome Prejudice and Meet the Challenge of American Immigration "Morales notes [that] those who live on the margins are not even refugees, often seeking survival without the UNHCR, internally displaced people whose stories we need to hear, whose lives we need to remember. . . a must read." -Dr. Westy Egmont, Professor, Director of the Immigrant Integration Lab, Boston College School of Social Work For over a decade, human rights journalist Agus Morales has journeyed to the sites of the world's most brutal conflicts and spoken to the victims of violence and displacement. To Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Central African Republic. To Central America, the Congo, and the refugee camps of Jordan. To the Tibetan Parliament in exile in northern India. We are living in a time of massive global change, when negative images of refugees undermine the truth of their humiliation and suffering. By bringing us stories that reveal the individual pain and the global scope of the crisis, Morales reminds us of the truth and appeals to our conscience.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Charlesbridge
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781632892249
• Artikelnr.: 55385781

Autorenporträt

Agus Morales is a journalist who has spent the last decade writing about victims of war and the displaced. He is in love with the Indian subcontinent, where he spent over five years as a correspondent for the Spanish news agency Agencia EFE in both India and Pakistan. He then spent three years with Doctors Without Borders, following population movements in Africa and the Middle East. He is now an independent reporter whose work has appeared in the New York Times en Español, among other places. He is a founder and director of the international journal Revista 5W, and he holds a PhD in language and literature. Agus lives in Barcelona, Spain.

Inhaltsangabe

Before We Begin . . . . . . . . . . . ix
"We Are Not Refugees" . . . . . . . 1
Part I
Origins: Why Are They Fleeing? . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
Bin Laden, Refugee, Afghanistan and Pakistan . . . . . 15
A Doctor Is More Dangerous Than a Fighter, Syria . .  28
Plastic Bottles, South Sudan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  48
Part II
Flights: Who Are They? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
In the Shade of a Turkish Lemon Tree,
   Salwa and Bushra, from Syria . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Because of an Iranian Accountant,
   Nesime, from Afghanistan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
The Forgotten lake Kivu, Birihoya, Julienne, and
   David, from the Deomcratic Republic of Congo . . 88
Part III
The Camps: Where Do They Live? . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
The City of Refugees, Zaatari (Jordan) . . . . . . . . . 105
Open-Air Prisons, Malakal (South Sudan) . . . . . . . . 114
The Spirit o fhte Migrant Shelters, Ixtepec (Mexico). 125
Part IV
Routes: How Do They Travel? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Waiting for the Beast, Central America—
    The United States
The Route of Shame, Turkey—Greece—The Balkans. 164
Libyan Waves, Mediterranean Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Part V
Destinations: When Do They Arrive? . . . . . . . . . . 201
A Ticket to Limbo in Refugee Class,
     Central African Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
The Refugee Parliament, Tibetans in Exile . . . . . . . . 233
The Last Border, Syrians in Europe . . . . . . . . . . . .  251
Acknowlegements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269