Nadir

There are 35 million child refugees in the world today; over a million children were born in flight, in exile, in camps. While a great deal has been written about the suffering of those who are fleeing persecution, displacement, hunger and war, in Nadir Laura Fusco attempts to record the voices of the refugees themselves, especially the women and the children.

Nadir is a book about desert caravans, dangerous sea-crossings and desperate marches, about fences, camps, detention centres, squats and underpasses. It is a portrait of ‘a crowd of a hundred solitudes’, the wretched of the earth, the defeated who refuse to accept defeat.