Publication date:
14 February 2020Length of book:
204 pagesPublisher
Rowman & Littlefield PublishersDimensions:
233x163mm6x9"
ISBN-13: 9781538118450
This book opens a window into the world of people who are forced to flee their homeland to survive: refugees. To understand this world, you'll read the words, stories, hopes, expectations, and often despairs of the refugees themselves. Danielle Vella takes the reader along on her travels from Africa to the Middle East to Europe to the US to meet and interview refugees —and tell their stories.
A journalist and director of the International Reconciliation Program for the Jesuit Refugee Services, Vella had unique access to a wide variety of people and uses her correspondent skills to create an engaging, thoughtful collection of intense, firsthand experiences most readers will never have to endure personally. This carefully reported compilation, best taken in small portions, should spark thoughtful discussions about the forces behind displacement and migration, the challenges refugees face, the associated social and political changes to our world, and a sense of a more compassionate and just world we hope to create.