My Fourth Time We Drowned Seeking Refuge On The World's Deadliest Migration Route

Description: Winner of The Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2022 Winner of The Michel D on Prize 2022 Winner of the An Post Irish Book of the Year Award 2022 Winner of the An Post Irish Book Award for Nonfiction 2022 A Financial Times Best Political Book of 2022 A Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 A Guardian Best History and Politics Book of 2022 The Western world has turned its back on migrants leaving them to cope with one of the most devastating humanitarian crises in history. Reporter Sally Hayden was at home in London when she received a message on Facebook: Hi sister Sally we need your help. The sender identified himself as an Eritrean refugee who had been held in a Libyan detention center for months locked in one big hall with hundreds of others. Now the city around them was crumbling in a scrimmage between warring factions and they remained stuck defenseless with only one remaining hope: contacting her. Hayden had inadvertently stumbled onto a human rights disaster of epic proportions. From this single message begins a staggering account of the migrant crisis across North Africa in a groundbreaking work of investigative journalism. With unprecedented access to people currently inside Libyan detention centers Hayden's book is based on interviews with hundreds of refugees and migrants who tried to reach Europe and found themselves stuck in Libya once the EU started funding interceptions in 2017. It is an intimate portrait of life for these detainees as well as a condemnation of NG Os and the United Nations whose abdication of international standards will echo throughout history. But most importantly My Fourth Time We Drowned shines a light on the resilience of humans: how refugees and migrants locked up for years fall in love support each other through the hardest times and carry out small acts of resistance in order to survive in a system that wants them to be silent and disappear.
Title: My Fourth Time We Drowned Seeking Refuge On The World's Deadliest Migration Route
Barcode: 9781612199450
Publication Date: 3/29/2022