Human Cargo A Journey Among Refugees

by Moorehead, Caroline

• ISBN13: 9780312425616
• ISBN10: 0312425619
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-21
• Publisher: Picador

Summary

National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 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 Cargochanges our understanding of what it means to have and lose a place in the world, and reveals how the refugee "problem" is on a par with global crises such as terrorism and world hunger.

Author Biography

Caroline Moorehead is the author of Gellhorn, and has been a columnist covering human rights for two British newspapers. She has worked directly with African refugees in Cairo in recent years. She lives in London.

Table of Contents

A Refugee Story	p. 1
Prologue: The Lost Boys of Cairo	p. 3
A View of History
The Homeless and the Rightless	p. 31
Leaving
Gli Extracomunitari: Sicily's Boat People	p. 57
The Fence: The Migrants of San Diego and Tijuana	p. 83
Arriving
Fair Go: Australia and the Policy of Mandatory Detention	p. 115
Newcastle and the Politics of Dispersal	p. 156
Little Better than Cockroaches: Guinea's Long-term Camps	p. 187
The Corridors of Memory: The Naqba and the Palestinians of Lebanon	p. 220
The Illness of Exile	p. 257
Afterward
Going Home: Afghanistan	p. 291
Dead Dreams: The Dinkas of Oulu	p. 328
Epilogue: A Mode of Being	p. 349
Sources	p. 373
Acknowledgments	p. 379
Index	p. 381
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