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02897aam a2200373Ii 4500 001 85704BFC403511EB87AA299C42ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20201217010015 007 tb 008 200213s2019 meu 000 0 eng d 020 $a 1432873164 (large print ) 020 $a 9781432873165 (large print ) 035 $a (OCoLC)1140510147 040 $a PLF $b eng $c PLF $d IOU $d SILO 100 1 $a Nayeri, Dina, $e author. 245 14 $a The ungrateful refugee : $b what immigrants never tell you / $c Dina Nayeri. 250 $a Large Print edition. 264 1 $a Waterville, Maine : $b Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company, $c ©2019. 300 $a 525 pages (large print) ; $c 23 cm 340 $n Large print $2 rda 490 1 $a Thorndike Press large print nonfiction 520 $a In her first work of nonfiction, winner of the 2018 UNESCO City of Literature Paul Engle Prize Dina Nayeri--an author whose "exploration of the exile's predicament is tender and urgent" (The New Yorker)--examines what it means to be a refugee through her own story of childhood escape from Iran, and through the stories of other refugees and asylum seekers. 520 $a What is it like to be a refugee? It is a question many of us do not give much thought to, and yet there are more than 25 million refugees in the world. Aged eight, Dina Nayeri fled Iran along with her mother and brother and lived in the crumbling shell of an Italian hotel-turned-refugee-camp. Eventually she was granted asylum in America. She settled in Oklahoma, then made her way to Princeton University. In this book, Nayeri weaves together her own vivid story with the stories of other refugees and asylum seekers in recent years, bringing us inside their daily lives and taking us through the different stages of their journeys, from escape to asylum to resettlement. In these pages, a couple fall in love over the phone, and women gather to prepare the noodles that remind them of home. A closeted queer man tries to make his case truthfully as he seeks asylum, and a translator attempts to help new arrivals present their stories to officials. Nayeri confronts notions like "the swarm," and, on the other hand, "good" immigrants. She calls attention to the harmful way in which Western governments privilege certain dangers over others. With surprising and provocative questions, The Ungrateful Refugee challenges us to rethink how we talk about the refugee crisis. 650 0 $a Refugee children $z Iran. 650 0 $a Refugee children $x Social conditions. 650 0 $a Refugees $v Biography. 650 0 $a Refugees. 650 0 $a Large type books. 651 0 $a Iran $x Refugees $v Biography. 830 0 $a Thorndike Press large print nonfiction series. 941 $a 1 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20201217010201.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=85704BFC403511EB87AA299C42ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search