Lampedusa : gateway to Europe
Bartolo, Pietro, 1956-2018
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It is common to think of the refugee crisis as a recent phenomenon, but Dr Pietro Bartolo, who runs the clinic on the Italian island of Lampedusa, has been caring for its victims - both the living and the dead - for a quarter of a century. Situated some 200 km off Italy's Southern coast, Lampedusa has hit the world headlines in recent years as the first port of call for hundreds of thousands of African and Middle Eastern migrants hoping to make a new life in Europe. The shipwrecks began in 1992. Before the Arab Spring, they came from Africa, but now they come from across the Arab world as well. And the death toll is staggering. On Christmas Eve, 1996, 286 bodies were recovered; on the night of October 3, 2003, 366 out of 500 migrants died after a shipwreck nearby.
Main title:
Lampedusa : gateway to Europe / Pietro Bartolo, Lidia Tilotta ; translated by Chenxin Jiang.
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London : MacLehose Press, 2018.
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224 pages ; 20 cm
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Translated from the Italian.
ISBN:
9780857057303 (pbk. :)
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EnglishItalian
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BRN:
85020
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