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La storia di Mahmoud Traoré è quella di migliaia di giovani africani che, attratti dal mondo globalizzato, si lanciano sulle strade dell'esilio a piedi o a bordo di taxi-collettivi, camion da bestiame, piroghe, lasciandosi alle spalle il Sahel, il Sahara, la Libia e il Maghreb. Mahmoud ha impiegato tre anni e mezzo per percorrere la distanza che separa Dakar da Siviglia, mentre a un turista europeo sarebbero bastate poco più di tre ore di volo.

Nell'inverno del 2017 Edoardo Albinati e Francesca d'Aloja si uniscono a una missione dell'UNHCR in Niger, nel cuore dell'Africa. Otto giorni, poco più di una settimana - e due sguardi, due voci, per cercare di capire e raccontare cosa succede in quel crocevia dove passano profughi e armi, migranti e uranio, mentre il deserto avanza e l'acqua scarseggia sempre più. Il Niger è uno dei Paesi più poveri al mondo, ma pronto ad accogliere un numero impressionante di rifugiati dal Mali e dalla Nigeria, senza contare gli sfollati interni.

"Buon appetito ai pesci!": ecco l'augurio di qualcuno che si sente autorizzato a sfogare liberamente il suo rancore quando annega un migrante. E intanto vengono chiusi i porti alle navi che prestano soccorso, mettendo in discussione i principi rispettati dagli uomini di mare di ogni tempo. Mentre era in corso la prima di queste nuove emergenze, il caso della nave Aquarius, Edoardo Albinati ha scioccato l'opinione pubblica: "Ho desiderato che su quella nave morisse qualcuno, morisse un bambino", così sarebbe cessato il gioco cinico di scommettere sulla vita altrui per pura propaganda.

Here the emotional journeys of two German Jewish refugees are reconstructed from a substantial collection of family material, archives and secondary historical sources, which are used imaginatively to explore and illuminate a wider history. The letters evoke how it felt at the time to be a refugee and express eloquently the distress and losses involved in exile, separation and internment, providing intense dynamic snapshots of how they managed their emotions from day to day. The author shows the complex interrelationship between personal lives and social/historical events.

Fleeing East from Nazi terror, over a million Polish Jews traversed the Soviet Union, many finding refuge in Muslim lands. Their story - the extraordinary saga of two thirds of Polish Jewish survivors - has never been fully told. Author Mikhal Dekel's father, Hannan Teitel, and her aunt Regina were two of these refugees. After they fled the town in eastern Poland where their family had been successful brewers for centuries, they endured extreme suffering in the Soviet forced labor camps known as "special settlements".

Like so many American factory towns, Lewiston, Maine, thrived until its mill jobs disappeared and the young began leaving. But then the story unexpectedly veered: over the course of fifteen years, the city became home to thousands of African immigrants and, along the way, turned into one of the most Muslim towns in the US. Now about 6,000 of Lewiston's 36,000 inhabitants are refugees and asylum seekers, many of them Somali. Cynthia Anderson tells the story of this fractious yet resilient city.

In 2017, five-year-old Julia traveled with her mother, Guadalupe, from Honduras to the United States. Her harrowing journey took her through Mexico in the cargo section of a tractor trailer. Then she was separated from her mother, who was held hostage by smugglers who exploited her physically and financially. At the United States border, Julia came through the processing center as an unaccompanied minor after being separated from her stepdad who was deported.

In this compelling book, Ther examines the major causes of mass flight, from religious intolerance and ethnic cleansing to political persecution and war. He describes the perils and traumas of flight and explains why refugees and asylum seekers have been welcomed in some periods - such as during the Cold War - and why they are rejected in times such as our own. He also examines the afterlives of the refugees in the receiving countries, which almost always benefited from admitting them. He reconceptualizes Europe as a unit of geography and historiography.

In 1975, 13-year-old Lan Cao boarded an airplane in Saigon and got off in a world where she faced hosts she had not met before, a language she didn't speak, and food she didn't recognize, with the faint hope that she would be able to go home soon. Lan fought her way through confusion, and racism, to become a successful lawyer and novelist. Four decades later, she faced the biggest challenge in her life: raising her daughter, Harlan - half Vietnamese by birth and 100 percent American teenager by inclination.

A rich boy turned refugee tells the story of coming full circle to succeed in ways beyond his imagination. Born to a family that had recently fled British India during the partition of India and Pakistan, Ram's early life in Mombasa seemed charmed with wealth and success. However, losing all of this overnight through a second deportation, this time from Kenya to the UK, he saw the course of his life change beyond recognition.

قررتُ أنا والمُصوِّر الفوتوغرافي "ستانيسلاف كروبر" أن نمضي مع اللاجئين السوريين، مُحَاولين عبور البحر من مصر إلى إيطاليا. لقد سلَّمنا قَدَرَنا لمهربين لم يكونوا يعرفون أننا صحفيون. كانوا يضربوننا بالعُصيّ كالآخرين ويطلبون منَّا أن نسير بسرعة كي لا يُلاحظ أحد المجموعةَ التي كنَّا ضمنها. لا يمكن أبدًا أن يقبلوا بوجود صحفيين في رحلات كهذه حتى لا يتسرب شيء إلى الجهات الأمنية. كان أخطر ما يمكن أن يحدث لنا في هذه الرحلة هو أن يتمكَّن هؤلاء من معرفة هوياتنا الحقيقية. فقط "عمّار" وعائلته كانوا الوحيدين الذين يعرفون

In 2011, Syrians took to the streets demanding freedom. Brutal government repression transformed peaceful protests into one of the most devastating conflicts of our times, killing hundreds of thousands and displacing millions. The Home I Worked to Make takes Syria's refugee outflow as its point of departure. Based on hundreds of interviews conducted across more than a decade, it probes a question as intimate as it is universal: What is home?

Yusra Mardini fled her native Syria to the Turkish coast in 2015 and boarded a dinghy full of refugees bound for Greece. When the small and overcrowded boat's engine cut out, it began to sink. Yusra, her sister and two others took to the water, pushing the boat for three and a half hours in open water until they eventually landed on Lesbos, saving the lives of the passengers aboard.

Like much of North Korea, Songmi Han lived in desperate poverty. As a child, she and her family endured extreme hardship, with many meals consisting of little more than grass. Domestic abuse, grueling physical labor, emotional abuse, and hunger were constant in her life. School was out of the question, and she and her mother stole food to survive. Greenlight to Freedom: A North Korean Daughter’s Search for Her Mother and Herself, written by Songmi Han and Casey Lartigue Jr., recounts Songmi’s childhood and escape from North Korea in a perilous and gripping narrative.

How Americans Think: Immigrant Guide is a comprehensive, practical resource designed for immigrants who want to understand American culture while preserving their own heritage. Whether you're new to the U.S. or have lived here for years, this guide offers key insights into American life, from work and family dynamics to communication styles and pathways to success.

A beautiful and compelling family memoir retracing the love story between Sabrin Hasbun's Palestinian father and Italian mother, and the life of her half-Italian, half-Palestinian family from the 1960s to 2020. After the loss of her mother, Sabrin tries to renegotiate her mixed identity and understand her mother's choices which led her from an oppressive childhood in a village in Tuscany to finding love and community activism in Palestine.

Sin maletas. Historias de refugiados desde el exilio es la primera investigación periodística sobre refugiados en el mundo nacida en América Latina. Busca crear conciencia sobre la migración forzada como un problema mundial y reconoce las contribuciones que los refugiados aportan a las sociedades en las que conviven. Con estas crónicas se quiere promover la tolerancia y la diversidad, así como conocer si los valores fundamentales de la protección de la vida y la defensa de los derechos humanos pueden librarse de los prejuicios cuando tocan a tu puerta.

On the 18th of June 1994, weeks before the end of the massacres in which hundreds of thousands of her fellow Tutsi, Rwanda's Bantu-speaking ethnic group, were slaughtered by the Hutu, Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse and her mother were fortunate to find a safe passage out of Rwanda with a convoy of children organised by a Swiss humanitarian organisation. Fifteen years later, after rebuilding her life and becoming a successful novelist, Mairesse is ready to begin the long process of reconstructing her incomplete memories of the escape.

As you reach the end, a resounding call will reverberate within your soul. It is a call for collective action, for empathy to triumph over indifference. The author's poignant conclusion embodies a rallying cry, urging us all to unite in the face of distressing circumstances. Together, we can forge a brighter future, one that nurtures enduring solutions and brings solace to the millions affected by forced displacement.

A moving, often provocative, and ultimately vital collection of firsthand accounts of people living through the Boko Haram conflict. From abducted girls to brash soldiers, and from community leaders to simple fishermen, this collection provides an insight into the realities of those living through the conflict, making this an essential cultural archive. The World Was in Our Hands covers themes of patriarchy, the economy, climate change, and corruption, to paint a picture that is much broader than what has been captured through news coverage.