Refugee Tales three – Paperback

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Edited by David Herd & Anna Pinkus

With nationalism and the far right on the rise across Europe and North America, there has never been a ‘more important moment to faceup to what we, in Britain, are doing to those who seek sanctuary, Still the UK detains people indefinitely under immigration rules. Bail hearings go unrecorded, people are picked up without notice, individuals feel abandoned in detention centres, with no way of knowing when they will be released.

In Refugee Tales III, we read the stories of people who have I been through this process, many of whom have yet to see their cases resolved and live in fear that at any moment they might be detained again. Poets, novelists and writers have once again collaborated with people who have experienced detention, their tales appearing alongside first-hand accounts by people who themselves have been detained. What we hear in these stories are the realities of the hostile environment, the human costs of a system that disregards rights, that denies freedoms and suspends lives.

‘We hear so many of the wrong words about refugees ugly, limiting, unimaginative words that it feels like a gift to find here so many of ~he right words which allow 1J,S to better understand the lives around us, and our own lives too.’– Kamila Shamsie.

Featuring: Monica Ali, Lisa Appignanesi, David Constantine, Bernardine Evaristo, Patrick Gale, Abdulra,zak Gurnah, Emma Parsons, Ian Sansom, Jonathan Skinner, Gillian Slovo, Lytton Smith, Roma Tearne and Jonathan Wittenberg.