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A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging

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Availability:In StockContributor:Lauren MarkhamPublish date:2024-02-13Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:Riverhead BooksISBN-13:9780593545577ISBN-10:593545575UPC:9780593545577Book Category:Political Science, Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Public Policy, Refugees, EuropeBook Topic:Immigration, GreeceSize:9.31 x 6.33 x 0.84 inchesWeight:0.9811Product ID:SC4C84Y88D
"This stunning meditation on nostalgia, heritage, and compassion asks us to dismantle the stories we've been told--and told ourselves--in order to naturalize the forms of injustice we've come to understand as order." --Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams

When and how did migration become a crime? Why does ancient Greece remain so important to the West's idea of itself? How does nostalgia fuel the exclusion and demonization of migrants today?
In 2021, Lauren Markham went to Greece, in search of her own Greek heritage and to cover the aftermath of a fire that burned down the largest refugee camp in Europe. Almost no one had wanted the camp--not activists, not the country's growing neo-fascist movement, not even the government. But almost immediately, on scant evidence, six young Afghan refugees were arrested for the crime.
Markham soon saw that she was tracing a broader narrative, rooted not only in centuries of global history but also in myth. A mesmerizing, trailblazing synthesis of reporting, history, memoir, and essay, A Map of Future Ruins helps us see that the stories we tell about migration don't just explain what happened. They are oracles: they predict the future.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Riverhead BooksISBN-13:9780593545577ISBN-10:593545575UPC:9780593545577Book Category:Political Science, Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Public Policy, Refugees, EuropeBook Topic:Immigration, GreeceSize:9.31 x 6.33 x 0.84 inchesWeight:0.9811Product ID:SC4C84Y88D
Lauren Markham is the author of the award-winning The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life. She has been working with migrants for two decades and has written about migration and other social issues in The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, The New York Review of Books, and other publications. She lives in Berkeley, CA.


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