A sweeping and intimately told history of exiles and refugees.How have those who arrived on Britain-s shores shaped its history?For most of its history, Great Britain cherished its outward image as a safe haven for those displaced by religious persecution, political violence or economic crisis - an island of stability in the midst of a cruel, chaotic world. Today, however, refugees seeking to reach Britain most often face perilous journeys, impossible bureaucracy and acidic public opinion.In Island Refuge, migration scholar Matthew Lockwood overturns many of today-s misconceptions by revisiting both our history of migrants and the way British attitudes have flexed and changed over time.This is a profoundly moving and illuminating history, woven together through the stories of individuals: Frederick Douglass and the formerly enslaved men who followed in his footsteps, fleeing America on the hopes of kinder cultures. Little girls like Liesl Ornstein, who discovered they were Jewish only
