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The Re in Refuge

By Adrianne Kalfopoulou

The Re in Refuge Essays & Short Stories

The Re in Refuge

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"The re in refuge is a collection of linked essays that investigate ideas of refuge, broadly defined, from the intimacies of romance to the promises of the nation-state. Written over the span of a decade, the collection shapes experiences and events that interrogate their larger political and social contexts. The emerging European refugee crisis, yet to become headline news, frames the opening essays, with stories of those lost in their passage across the Mediterranean. In 2014, Italy and the United Kingdom end funding for naval rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea, and the influx of refugees into Greece reconfigures some of Athens' neighborhoods. A once-abandoned school building becomes a squat where Kalfopoulou and other volunteers engage with refugee communities that include families from Afghanistan, Syria, and Kurdistan. As Kalfopoulou notes in "The Parts Don't Add Up," a visual essay, "embedded in the word refugee is refuge," suggesting that the vectors of shelter have as much to do with what one carries of culture and place as they are about a tangible home"--
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
186
Release Date:
2025-05-06
Publication Date:
2025-05-06
Publisher:
Red Hen Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1636282768
ISBN13:
9781636282763
Weight:
408 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
12 cm
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