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Dying to Live: Stories from Refugees on the Road to Freedom

Dying to Live: Stories from Refugees on the Road to Freedom


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About the Book

This book opens a window into the world of people who are forced to flee their homeland to survive: refugees. To understand this world, you'll read the words, stories, hopes, expectations, and often despairs of the refugees themselves. Danielle Vella takes the reader along on her travels from Africa to the Middle East to Europe to the US to meet and interview refugees —and tell their stories.

Table of Contents:
Table of Contents Acknowledgments PART 1: FLIGHT Chapter 1: Where Do I Begin? Chapter 2: Damned If You Do or If You Don’t Expecting The Worst Wherever You Go, We Will Find You Chapter 3: Paying The Price For Principles Send Christian Children Away Truth Has a Price A Matter of Faith Chapter 4: I Am Going Where I Will Be Free They Were Wrong Men Please Don’t Hold The Gun Escape Chapter 5: I Was Already Dead A Boy with a Difficult Life I Felt I Had No Value Chapter 6: Life Is So Cheap Escaping ISIS Paying a High Price for Freedom Killed For Nothing I Am You, You Are Me PART 2: JOURNEY Chapter 7: Leaving Syria Unforgettable Details The Good Druze Chapter 8: Welcome to Libya God Saved Me Cruel Extortion Good Samaritans Chapter 9: Saving Lives Is Not a Crime They Just Got Too Tired Seeing the Reality Chapter 10: Always Looking For a Better Place Free At Last Journey To Europe Chapter 11: Fortress Europe North African Spain Another Deadly Option Chapter 12: Looking For Life I Want To See My Family Again All I Want Is To Work and Have A Peaceful Life Forced To Follow This Rhythm Chapter 13: I Trust Myself Looking For A Normal Life Escape From Libya From Algeria To Morocco Melilla! A Better Life Is Waiting Out There Chapter 14: The Game Beware of the Dogs Hide and Seek Chapter 15: Crisis of Compassion A 50/50 Chance Open-Door Policy Chapter 16: A Life in Exile Under the Bridge Father and Son Make It or Die Try to Study Happy in Rome PART 3: DESTINATION? Chapter 17: Safe For Now Beautiful But So Expensive Everyone Has a Story Strained Hospitality At Least We Are Safe Here Chapter 18: The Dangers of Waiting Wasted Time How to Stop Worrying Think Twice Now It Is Time to Live You Realise It’s Not a Fairy Tale Chapter 19: I Have a Dream My Dream Is Coming True I Hope For a Better Life Chapter 20: Rejection and Hospitality in Europe An Ecstatic Reunion… And Then What? We Are Lucky To Welcome Him A Moralising Approach Based On Convenient Classification Another Chance at Life God Always Helps Chapter 21: You Need To Listen To That Voice The Power of a Single Gesture We Can Do More Than They Think Refugees Are Not What You Think Them Chapter 22: A Question of Belonging I Feel I Don’t Belong Here This Is Me Island of Isolation Starting from Zero Chapter 23: There Is Always Another Chance A Whole New World A Richly Deserved ‘F’Welcome to America Chapter 24: Do Unto Others… Acronyms

About the Author :
Danielle Vella is director of the International Reconciliation Program for the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS). A journalist, she has also served as publication coordinator for JRS, editor and writer for the African Jesuit AIDS Network, a reporter for Vatican Radio, and a contributor to The Tablet, Times of Malta, and The Malta Independent. She is based in Malta, Italy, and travels internationally for JRS.

Review :
A journalist and director of the International Reconciliation Program for the Jesuit Refugee Services, Vella had unique access to a wide variety of people and uses her correspondent skills to create an engaging, thoughtful collection of intense, firsthand experiences most readers will never have to endure personally. This carefully reported compilation, best taken in small portions, should spark thoughtful discussions about the forces behind displacement and migration, the challenges refugees face, the associated social and political changes to our world, and a sense of a more compassionate and just world we hope to create. [Dying to Live] serves as a work of activism, making visible those who too often, through some combination of indifference and design, are kept invisible. . . . it would be an excellent addition to a high school library or the bookshelf of a religious institution. Vella’s riveted focus on the lives of actual human beings helps her to maintain moral clarity; she may not go deep into geopolitical context or policy analysis, but her overarching goal is to humanize the consequences, and at that she succeeds brilliantly. This is a book entirely in tune with the mission of the Jesuit Refugee Service to serve, to advocate for and to accompany de facto refugees worldwide. The voices in this book represent a truly global reality and their message is the same: human beings express a desire not merely to survive but to live lives worthy of their human capabilities and longings. These longings for peace, security, self-determination, community, family are long recognised as the basic goods of human life by the Catholic social tradition. What Vella manages to do in this book is to find words for what can seem wordless, avoiding the hackneyed or cliched. She has created a text with a single imperative: listen! Come along and journey with people whose stories will fascinate you, surprise you, uplift you, challenge you, inspire you and break open your heart. Too often refugees seem to be a mass of faceless people or an alarming statistic. But no refugee story is the same because all refugees are unique and beautiful children of God. This moving, sometimes harrowing, new book of stories invites you to see them as your brothers and sisters. An essential book for understanding one of the most pressing challenges of our time. This book has given a voice to the voiceless, a striking profile to those the modern world would rather dismiss as dematerialized. It mentions the unmentionables and shows that suffering and humiliation and rejection have more claims to be part of the human dimension than comfort and success. The debt by humans to humanity is becoming overwhelming. The refugee crisis is, along with the climate emergency, the ethical challenge of our age. To address it adequately we must understand it. That can only be achieved by listening, with humility and respect, to the testimony of those who have risked everything to find safety and hope. This book allows us to take that necessary step. Some of the stories told here are shocking and hard to read. But the cumulative impact of this unique and vital book is profound. Here, at last, we have refugees speaking for themselves, with piercing clarity and dignity. A must-read for anyone who wants to get behind the headlines of the refugee crisis and understand the vulnerable, fragile and fugitive lives which impose on us an inescapable moral responsibility. An individual’s life can change by the moment. Danielle Vella’s Dying to Live: Stories from Refugees on the Road to Freedom deconstructs what this means for people fleeing from their homelands. The stories, guided by the author’s commentary, awaken the audience to this distinct migrant population. The brave people sharing their stories strive to make sense of their uprooted lives, and the reader confronts the tough decisions they were compelled to make... All these narratives underscore the challenges Vella expresses with writing this powerful, thought-provoking book. Inspired by the Book of Matthew 7:12 and other heartfelt Biblical references, the last chapter ends with an appeal to one narrator’s particular belief that “if people out there know about such stories, they will act to ensure they never happen again” (179). Vella ends with a stirring appeal to readers to not let him, and others like him, down.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9798216237204
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Stories from Refugees on the Road to Freedom
  • ISBN-10: 8216237200
  • Publisher Date: 14 Feb 2020
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 1


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