Cast Away (eBook)

True Stories of Survival from Europes Refugee Crisis

Charlotte McDonald-Gibson (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
256 Seiten
The New Press (Verlag)
978-1-62097-264-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence 2017"e;Galvanizing and deeply compassionate."e; O MagazineFrom Time magazine's European Union correspondent, a powerful exploration of the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean, told through the stories of migrants who have made the perilous journey into EuropeIn 2015, more than one million migrants and refugees, most fleeing war-torn countries in Africa and the Middle East, attempted to make the perilous journey into Europe. Around three thousand lost their lives as they crossed the Mediterranean and Aegean in rickety boats provided by unscrupulous traffickers, including over seven hundred men, women, and children in a single day in April 2015. In one of the first works of narrative nonfiction on the ongoing refugee crisis and the civil war in Syria, Cast Away describes the agonizing stories and the impossible decisions that migrants have to make as they head toward what they believe is a better life: a pregnant Eritrean woman, four days overdue, chooses to board an obviously unsafe smuggler's ship to Greece; a father, swimming from a sinking ship, has to decide whether to hold on to one child or let him go to save another. Veteran journalist Charlotte McDonald-Gibson offers a vivid, on-the-ground glimpse of the pressures and hopes that drive individuals to risk their lives. Recalling the work of Katherine Boo and Caroline Moorehead, Cast Away brings to life the human consequences of one of the most urgent humanitarian issues of our time.

Autor

Charlotte McDonald-Gibson has reported from three continents for the international media, including serving as the deputy foreign editor of The Independent. She is now based in Brussels covering the European Union for The Independent and Time, and this is her first book.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.10.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: disasters at sea • fleeing war-torn countries • humanitarian crisis • Human Traffickers • Migrants • Refugee crisis • refugees in the Mediterranean • smuggling ships
• ISBN-10: 1-62097-264-6 / 1620972646
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62097-264-9 / 9781620972649