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Human Cargo A Journey among Refugees

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ISBN-10: 0312425619

ISBN-13: 9780312425616

Edition: N/A

Authors: Caroline Moorehead

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nbsp; National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist nbsp; Traveling for nearly two years and across four continents, Caroline Moorehead takes readers on a journey to understand why millions of people are forced to abandon their homes, possessions, and families in order to find a place where they may, quite literally, be allowed to live. Moorehead's experience living and working with refugees puts a human face on the news, providing unforgettable portraits of the refugees she meets in Cairo, Guinea, Sicily, Lebanon, England, Australia, Finland, and at the U.S.-Mexico border. Human Cargo changes our understanding of what it means to have and lose a place in the world, and reveals how the…    
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Book details

List price: $26.00
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 3/21/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Caroline Moorehead is the biographer of Bertrand Russell, Freya Stark, Iris Origo and Martha Gellhorn. Well known for her work in human rights, she has published a history of the Red Cross and a book about refugees, Human Cargo. Her biography of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, Dancing to the Precipice, was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award in 2009. Caroline's most recent book was A Train in Winter. She lives in London.

A Refugee Story
Prologue: The Lost Boys of Cairo
A View of History
The Homeless and the Rightless
Leaving
Gli Extracomunitari: Sicily's Boat People
The Fence: The Migrants of San Diego and Tijuana
Arriving
Fair Go: Australia and the Policy of Mandatory Detention
Newcastle and the Politics of Dispersal
Little Better than Cockroaches: Guinea's Long-term Camps
The Corridors of Memory: The Naqba and the Palestinians of Lebanon
The Illness of Exile
Afterward
Going Home: Afghanistan
Dead Dreams: The Dinkas of Oulu
Epilogue: A Mode of Being
Sources
Acknowledgments
Index