Refugee Tales

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• Publisher: Comma Press
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9781910974636
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Literature
• Index: Literature

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 experiences anonymously, as modern day counterparts to the pilgrims stories in Chaucers Canterbury Tales, this book offers rare, intimate glimpses into otherwise untold suffering.

Table of contents

• Prologue
• The Migrant’s Tale
• The Chaplain’s Tale
• The Unaccompanied Minor’s Tale
• The Lorry Driver’s Tale
• The Arriver’s Tale
• The Visitor’s Tale
• The Detainee’s Tale
• The Interpreter’s Tale
• The Appellant’s Tale
• The Dependant’s Tale
• The Friend’s Tale
• The Deportee’s Tale
• The Lawyer’s Tale
• The Refugee’s Tale
• Afterword
• About the Contributors