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Bullets on the Water: Refugee Stories

Bullets on the Water: Refugee Stories

Grouev, Ivaylo

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Canadian HistoryGeneral SociologyImmigration & Refugees

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ISBN10: 0773521178
ISBN13: 9780773521179
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: Sep 18 2000
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.49 Width: 5.54 Depth: 8.54
Language: English

Civil wars in Africa, the collapse of the central regime in Somalia, genocide in Rwanda, the Persian Gulf war in the Middle East, the collapse of the military regimes in Central America, new ethnic clashes in the former USSR - all these events have resulted in an increased number of displaced people, most of whom never expected to find themselves in such a situation. Their refusal to accept the division of their countries into separate ethnic, religious, or political groups or to participate in dubious political games exacted a heavy price - they lost their homelands and became refugees.

Is it OK not to be afraid of losing your country, all your past, all your friends, and to create a new life in a new place?

These stories show what it means to find yourself a stranger in your homeland and the difficulties to be overcome before you feel at home again. Most importantly, however, these stories tell us about acceptance and the need to bridge differences in language, religion, culture, and traditions.

Bullets on the Water makes it clear that most refugees in Canada have an unquestionable belief in the importance of acceptance, tolerance, and respect for difference. Their choice to become refugees was dictated not only by the dynamics of political events but, perhaps even more, by the fact that the culture of animosity, violence, and hatred was completely foreign to them.

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