The Lost Boys of Sudan: An American Story of the Refugee Experience
by Mark Bixler
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"In 2000 the United States began accepting 3,800 refugees from one of Africa's longest civil wars. They were just some of the thousands of young men, known as 'Lost Boys, ' who had been orphaned or otherwise separated from their families in the chaos of a brutal conflict that has ravaged their home country of Sudan since 1983. [This book] focuses on four of these refugees. Theirs, however, is a typical story, one that repeated itself wherever the Lost Boys were found across America. It is a show more story of the countless challenges of 'making it' in a strange new place after years on the run in Sudan or in refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia ... As we immerse ourselves in the Lost Boys' daily lives, we also get to know the social services professionals and volunteers, celebrities, community leaders, and others who guided them - with occasional detours - toward self-sufficiency. Along the way, [the author] looks closely at the ins and outs of U.S. refugee policy, the politics of international aid, the history of Sudan, and the radical Islamist underpinnings of its government"--Jacket. show lessTags
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Mark Bixler is a staff writer at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, Politics and Government
- DDC/MDS
- 962.404 — History & geography History of Africa Egypt, Sudan, South Sudan Sudan [& South Sudan] Sudan & South Sudan Sudan & South Sudan
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- HV640.4 .S73 .B59 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Refugee problems
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