"Asylum and Exile" is the result of several months of personal
outreach to refugees and asylum seekers that goes behind the
headlines to reveal the humanity, tragedy, and bravery of the
individuals who have left everything behind to seek sanctuary from
violence in the UK. Bidisha offers moving stories of refugees who
have fled war, violent persecution, or civil unrest in countries as
diverse as Cameroon, Iran, Syria, Somalia, Malawi, Burundi, the
Congo, and Sierra Leone. Some of the individuals have been in the
UK for a few months, others for more than a decade. Bidisha
chronicles their experiences, revealing that though many used to be
mathematicians, composers, criminologists, accountants, and
teachers, in England, without money and papers authorizing them to
work, they must work illegally as cleaners, factory workers,
dishwashers, health care assistants, and at other unstable, unseen,
underpaid, and grueling jobs. Their London life is one of trying to
survive on five pounds a day, of interminable bus journeys across
the capital, appointments with legal aid workers, and reliance on
near-strangers to get a foothold with little or no support. Despite
this, as Bidisha shows, their unerring humor, vivacity, talent, and
will to survive is a testament to the blazing resilience of the
human spirit.
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