In store now! Refugee Tales Vol. 1-4
Combining author re-tellings with first hand experiences of refugees, this urgent and compelling series challenges our Government’s position and handling of refugee crises around the world, and offers a compassionate and courageous insight into the lives of those forcibly displaced by war, famine, and oppression. Essential reading.
If you would like to donate to a local refugee charity, you could consider the following organisations:
Clear Project - https://clearproject.org.uk/supportus/
Southampton & Winchester Visitors Group - https://www.justgiving.com/swvg
Southampton Action - https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/handoffriendship
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Refugee Tales Vol. 1-4
Paperback, £9.99 per title
These are not fictions. Nor are they testimonies from some distant, brutal past, but the frighteningly common experiences of Europe's new underclass - its refugees. While those with "citizenship" enjoy basic human rights (like the right not to be detained without charge for more than 14 days), people seeking asylum can be suspended for years in Kafka-esque uncertainty.
Here, poets and novelists retell the stories of individuals who have direct experience of Britain's policy of indefinite immigration detention. Presenting their accounts anonymously, as modern day counterparts to the pilgrims' stories in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, this book offers rare, intimate glimpses into otherwise untold suffering.
All profits from this series go to Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group & Kent Refugee Help.
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