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1 online resource : illustrations, maps |
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nat Britons |
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gdr Women |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
"What is it like to run away from bombing, lose your family and work out how to take care of yourself in a foreign country when you are 7 years old? What do you do when the woman who promised you a good job in Europe turns out to have sold you into prostitution? How do you escape from torture and detention in Libya? What is it like to almost drown in the Mediterranean and then be confined in a garbage and rat-filled settlement on a Greek island for years? In this book, Lynne Jones answers these questions by combining direct testimony from children with a blazingly frank eyewitness account of providing mental health support on the front line of the migrant crisis across Europe and Central America in the last 5 years. Her diaries document how a compassionate welcome shifted to indifference and hostility towards those seeking refuge from war, disaster and poverty in the richest countries in the world. They shine a light on what it is like to be caught up on the front lines of the migrant crises in Europe and Central America, either as a person in flight or as a volunteer trying to help. They show how people who have fled war, poverty and disaster -- trapped in degrading humiliating living conditions -- have responded with resourcefulness and creativity. In the absence of most large professional humanitarian agencies, migrants and volunteers together have created a new form of humanitarianism that challenges old ways of working. Today there are 79 million forcibly displaced people in the world today, 1% of the world's population. Understanding the perspectives of people on the move has never been more important."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Biography |
Lynne Jones OBE, FRCPsych., PhD, is a child psychiatrist, relief worker, and writer. She has spent much of the last 25 years establishing and running mental health programs in areas of conflict or natural disaster, including the Balkans, East and West Africa, South East Asia, the Middle East, Haiti and Central America. Most recently, she has worked in the migrant crisis in Europe and Central America, through which she has established a storytelling project for children: migrantchildstorytelling.org. It is this period of work that is recorded in the diaries alongside some of the children's stories. She is a course director for the annual course on Mental health in Complex Emergencies, run by the Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs at Fordham University, in collaboration with UNHCR. Her other published works include: Then They Started Shooting:Children of the Bosnian War and the Adults They Become, (Bellevue Literary Press 2013) and Outside the Asylum: A Memoir of War, Disaster and Humanitarian Psychiatry (Orion 2017). |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 2015 -- Calais France, October-November 2015 -- 2016 -- Calais, Dunkirk France, February 2016 -- Ahmed's Story -- Island of Lesvos Greece, March 2016 -- Idomeni Northern Greece, March 2016 -- Lagkadikia Northern Greece, Summer 2016 -- Maria's Story -- Calais France, October 2016 -- Sadiq's Story -- Sicily and Calabria Italy, November 2016 -- Siva's Story -- Ventimiglia Italy, November 2016 -- Isabel's Story -- 2017 -- Athens Greece, February 2017 -- Majd's Story -- Tapachula and Tijuana Mexico, April 2017 -- Emily's Story -- Calais France, November 2017 -- Dhaba's Story -- 2019 -- Samos Greece, June 2019 -- 2020 -- Afterword June 2020 -- Endnotes -- Author Biography |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Jones, Lynne.
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Jones, Lynne. |
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Jones, Lynne |
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Refugee children -- Psychology.
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Children and genocide.
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Children and war.
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Child disaster victims.
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Genocide survivors -- Psychology.
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War -- Psychological aspects.
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Disasters -- Psychological aspects.
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Child disaster victims |
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Children and genocide |
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Children and war |
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Disasters -- Psychological aspects |
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Refugee children -- Psychology |
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War -- Psychological aspects |
| Indexed Term |
Migrant. |
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conflict. |
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disaster. |
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displaced. |
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displacement. |
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humanitarian. |
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mental health. |
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refugee. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Jones, Lynne. Migrant diaries. New York : The Refugee Press, [2020] 0823296989 (OCoLC)1202751417 |
| ISBN |
9780823297016 webPDF |
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0823297012 webPDF |
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0823297004 ePub |
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9780823297009 (electronic bk.) |
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9780823296996 hardcover |
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9780823296989 paperback |
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0823296989 |
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0823296997 |
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