Life on the edge City of Thorns Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp Ben Rawlence Picador, 2016. 400 pp

Stories of hardship and resilience take center stage in a probing portrait of the world's largest refugee camp Millions of refugees have fled the conflict in Syria since 2010. But the urgency of the situation only captured the full attention of the media, governments, and the public once refuge...

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Published in:Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 2016-01, Vol.351 (6272), p.444-445
Main Author: Hynie, Michaela
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:Stories of hardship and resilience take center stage in a probing portrait of the world's largest refugee camp Millions of refugees have fled the conflict in Syria since 2010. But the urgency of the situation only captured the full attention of the media, governments, and the public once refugees began entering Europe in large numbers in 2015. Yet, even as our attention finally shifts to refugees fleeing Syria, it shifts further away from the hundreds of thousands who continue to struggle for existence in semi-permanent encampments around the world. In City of Thorns , Ben Rawlence describes life in the Dadaab refugee camps in Kenya, the world's largest and oldest refugee settlement. Weaving the underlying history and politics into the stories of individual residents, he renders the uncertainty, poverty, hunger, and powerlessness experienced by the refugees concrete, immediate, and moving.
ISSN:0036-8075
1095-9203
DOI:10.1126/science.aad8525