Bullets On The Water: Canadian Refugee Stories; Editor: Grouev, Ivaylo; Paperback

Editor: Grouev, Ivaylo
Paperback
151 pages
Published: November 2000
McGill-Queen's University Press
ISBN: 0773521178
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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.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 tellContaining the stories of refugees searching for better lives, this collection shows what it is to find oneself a stranger in one's own homeland. The stories convey the need to bridge differences in language, religion, culture and traditions.