MY NAME IS REFUGEE*. Chronicles on the worst migration crisis in Europe since World War II.

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By Irene L. Savio and Leticia Alvarez Reguera

With the prologue of Rossend Domènech and a special letter of a Syrian refugee to Europeans.

Almost by chance, grandmother Emilia became a lifeguard on a Greek island. Samia Sleman Kamal had a father who loved her before she was kidnapped by ISIS and she became, at the age of 13, a sex slave. The car salesman Vladiša Čuljak never thought that Vukovar, scenario of a civil war in the 90s, could assist again to the passage of thousands of displaced. Nevena Radovic studied Traumatology and Intensive Care in Belgrade before worrying about scabies and riding in a six meters long van into the pain of migrants. Nour read the Bible but, after Europe blew to smithereens his dream of reaching Germany, he wanted to return to Syria and die there. Syrians, Iraqis, Kurds ... thousands fled terror and war, leaving everything behind to start again. But Europe was not paradise.

This is the story of this migratory epic, told through its protagonists.

ON THE BOOK

Pages: 159.

Date of first edition: November 2016

Cover photo: © Juan Teixeira Vázquez

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

Irene L. Savio and Leticia Alvarez Reguera travelled to the Balkans and whole Europe covering the immigration crisis that broke all schemes in the Old Continent. From Turkey to Norway. Irene, born in Italy and raised in Argentina, is an old-school journalist, methodical and rigorous. Leticia, from the north of Spain, is a reporter with her heart in Athens. Before the immigration crisis of 2015 and 2016, Irene and Leticia worked together in Ukraine, in the most critical moments of the conflict that still shakes the country; in Greece, covering the socio-economic crisis that began in 2008 and in several countries of the Balkans region, where they also interviewed presidents and prime ministers of the countries that emerged with the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia. In their professional life, both have worked in different audiovisual and written media in Spain and Latin America.

INDEX

Prologue

Turkey, the journey of death. Fátima

Greece, the gateway. Grandmother Emilia

Macedonia, the first cap. Nedal and Janine

Serbia, Pandora's Box. Haana and Dr. Nevena

Hungary, the lack of solidarity. Ayla, Mohamed, Basel, Mary and Dale

Croatia, the long cut. Vladiša

Germany, willkommen. Samia

Letter from a Syrian to Europeans

Annexed

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