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The Re in Refuge: Essays

The Re in Refuge: Essays

Kalfopoulou, Adrianne

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Letters & EssaysFiction Anthologies

Publisher Price: $22.95

ISBN10: 1636282768
ISBN13: 9781636282763
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Published: May 6 2025
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The re in refuge is a collection of linked essays joined with photographs that investigate ideas of refuge, broadly defined, from the intimacies of romance to the promises of the nation state.


Written over the span of a decade, the collection shapes experiences and events that interrogate their larger political and social contexts. The emerging European refugee crisis, yet to become headline news, frames the opening essays, with stories of those lost in their passage across the Mediterranean. In 2014 Italy and the United Kingdom ended funding for naval rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea, and the influx of refugees into Greece reconfigures some of Athens' neighborhoods. A once abandoned school building becomes a squat where Kalfopoulou and other volunteers engage with refugee communities that include families from Afghanistan, Syria, and Kurdistan. As Kalfopoulou notes in The Parts Don't Add Up a visual essay, Embedded in the word refugee is refuge, suggesting that the vectors of shelter have as much to do with what one carries of culture and place as they are about a tangible home.

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