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Cast Away: True Stories of Survival from Europe's Refugee Crisis

Charlotte McDonald-Gibson

"In one of the first works of narrative nonfiction on the ongoing refugee crisis ... [this book] describes the ... stories and the ... 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 smugglers 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"--Amazon.com.

Politics & GovernmentPolitics & Government · medium confidencePolitics & Government81 signalsLlm Classifier: Politics & Government -> Politics & GovernmentOpen Library: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights -> ScienceOpen Library: POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European -> ScienceImmigration, Refugees & BorderlandsLGBTQ History & LifeGender & FeminismMigration & Diaspora

Award History

0 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionMajor2017LonglistOfficial source
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