Human Cargo

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<p><b>A new edition of this seminal book, now with a new introduction by the author on the current crisis</b></p><p>How can society cope with the diaspora of the twenty-first century?</p><p>Is there a difference between good asylum seekers and bad economic migrants?</p><p>What happens to those whose applications are turned down?</p><p>Caroline Moorehead has visited war zones, camps and prisons from Guinea and Afghanistan to Australia and Italy. She has interviewed emigration officials and members of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees while investigating the fates of the millions of people currently displaced from their homes.<i>Human Cargo</i>is both a remarkable exploration into the current crisis and a celebration of the courage of ordinary people.</p>

Autorenportrait

<b>Caroline Moorehead</b>is the biographer of Bertrand Russell, Freya Stark, Iris Origo and Martha Gellhorn. Her biography of Lucie de la Tour du Pin,<i>Dancing to the Precipice</i>, was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award in 2009, and her most recent book,<i>Village of Secrets,</i>was a<i>Sunday Times</i>bestseller and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize.

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