Description: A first-hand account of providing mental health support on the front line of the migrant crisis across Europe and Central America in the last 5 years, combined with direct testimony from child migrants sharing their life stories, hopes and dreams.
Brief description: Lynne Jones, OBE, FRCPsych, Ph.D., is a child and adolescent psychiatrist, writer, researcher, and relief worker. Her most recent books are Outside the Asylum: A Memoir of War, Disaster and Humanitarian Psychiatry and Then They Started Shooting: Children of the Bosnian War and the Adults They Become, published by Bellevue Literary Press.
Review Quotes: This book matters. The people Lynne Jones describes are human beings who were in these situations just because of bad luck. And when the outside world blocked us or forgot us, we refugees struggled against the odds to help ourselves. These stories need to be told and should not be forgotten.---Housam Jackaly, Activist, Syrian Refugee living in France