Citizens of Nowhere: From Refugee Camp to Canadian Campus

Debi Goodwin

ISBN 10: 0385667221 / ISBN 13: 9780385667227

Editore: Doubleday, Toronto, 2010

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8vo pp. ix 326."This is a snapshot of a refugee's first year in Canada, in particular a snapshot of young men and women lucky and smart enough to earn their passage from refugee camp to Canadian campus. ".

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Dati bibliografici

• Titolo: Citizens of Nowhere: From Refugee Camp to Canadian Campus
• Editore: Doubleday, Toronto
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0385667221
• ISBN 13: 9780385667227
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: Very Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Very Good
• Tipo di libro: book
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Canadian Studies

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Riassunto

An inspiring story of courage, adaptation and determinaton — a year in the life of 11 refugee students entering universities across Canada.

"Most journalists have stories they never forget. This is mine."

When Debi Goodwin travelled to the Dadaab Refugee Camp in 2007 to shoot a documentary on young Somali refugees soon coming to Canada, she did not anticipate the impact the journey would have on her. A year later, in August of 2008, she decided to embark upon a new journey, starting in the overcrowded refugee camps in Kenya, and ending in university campuses across Canada. For a year, she recorded the lives of eleven very lucky refugee students who had received coveted scholarships from Canadian universities, guaranteeing them both a spot in the student body and permanent residency in Canada. We meet them in the overcrowded confines of a Kenyan refugee camp and track them all the way through a year of dramatic and sometimes traumatic adjustments to new life in a foreign country called Canada. This is a snapshot of a refugee's first year in Canada, in particular a snapshot of young men and women lucky and smart enough to earn their passage from refugee camp to Canadian campus.

Informazioni sull?autore

Debi Goodwin is a documentary producer and a former CBC journalist. While at The National Debi produced documentaries from Latin America, Africa, China and Asia. The documentary "The Lucky Ones," which inspired this book, won the RTNDA's Adrienne Clarkson Award for best network program in 2008. Her work has also received a Gemini nomination and a Chris Award from the Columbus Film Festival.