ISBN:
9780300245448
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 340 Seiten)
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DDC:
362.87561094
Keywords:
Geschichte 2015-2016
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
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Political refugees History
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Flüchtling
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Südosteuropa
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Electronic books.
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Südosteuropa
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Flüchtling
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Geschichte 2015-2016
Abstract:
A powerful and revealing firsthand account of the migrant and refugee experience on the overland route across Europe War and chaos in Syria and Iraq, violence in Afghanistan, and hopelessness in countries bordering war zones have spurred several million refugees and migrants to set out for Europe. The West Balkans, from Turkey through Greece, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Hungary, became the main entry route. Based in Budapest for more than three decades, Nick Thorpe was perfectly placed to cover the birth of the route, its heyday, and the attempts of numerous states to close it. This is his intimate account of the daily lives of those stuck in razor-wire enclosures or on the move along forest tracks, railway lines, motorways-and of the smugglers, border police, and political leaders who help, exploit, or obstruct them. He challenges those who demonize or glorify migration, visits the arrivals in their new environment, and studies their impact on the countries which welcomed them with open arms or hesitation
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)
DOI:
10.12987/9780300245448
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