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The ungrateful refugee : what immigrants never tell you / Dina Nayeri.

By:

Nayeri, Dina [author.]

Publication details: Edinburgh : Canongate, 2020.Description: x, 370 pages ; 20 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781786893499 (pbk.) :

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

HV640.5.I76

Summary: What is it like to be a refugee? It is a question few in the West give much thought to, and yet to be a refugee - or an immigrant - is to grapple with your place in the world, attempting to reconcile the life you have known with the unfamiliar. With this comes the weight of the expectations (and fears and resentment) of those born in the host country; foremost is the burden of gratitude: to be forever thankful for the space you have been allowed. Nayeri weaves together the story of her own refugee journey - as a child forced to flee Iran, eventually finding asylum in America - with the stories of others making their own journeys today.

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Item type	Home library	Class number	Status	Date due	Barcode
2 week loan	Hockney Library Main Floor	362.77914/NAY (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		741245916X

Originally published: 2019.

What is it like to be a refugee? It is a question few in the West give much thought to, and yet to be a refugee - or an immigrant - is to grapple with your place in the world, attempting to reconcile the life you have known with the unfamiliar. With this comes the weight of the expectations (and fears and resentment) of those born in the host country; foremost is the burden of gratitude: to be forever thankful for the space you have been allowed. Nayeri weaves together the story of her own refugee journey - as a child forced to flee Iran, eventually finding asylum in America - with the stories of others making their own journeys today.

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