Finding Home: The Real Stories of Migrant Britain

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Award-winning reporter Emily Dugan's Finding Home follows the tumultuous lives of a group of immigrants, all facing extraordinary obstacles in their quest to live in the UK.

Mihai, 29, works in construction in London and longs for a National Insurance Number. Syrian refugee Emad, 35, set up the Free Syrian League and danger in the UK became as real as it had been in Damascus. He worked illegally in London to pay for his mother to be smuggled from Turkey on a near-deadly trip across the Mediterranean - but the battle to get her into Britain has only just started. Teaching assistant Klaudia is one of many thousands of Polish people now living in Boston - itself a microcosm of poorly managed migration.

Dugan's timely and acutely observed book reveals numerous intense personal dramas of ordinary men and woman as they struggle to find somewhere to call home. It shows that migration is not about numbers, votes or opinions: it is about people.

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A timely and acutely observed book... it shows that migration is not about numbers, votes or opinions: it is about people. * Carabas *
The whole story [is] told in such a fluent and well observed way. * Freedom of Movement *
I implore you to read this book. Its honest and powerful recollections will force you to look beyond the figures, and at the individuals that make up the numbers. * InQuire Live *
An often heart-breaking read that stresses the mess of people's lives, and their desperation and strength, too. * Sunday Herald *
Excellently observed, well-judged and highly readable, making it well worth a look. * The London Economic *
This book is honest and so eye-opening... [it] couldn't be more important. * Thought About Books Blog *
Dugan sows sincere and powerful seeds via the stories of a group of migrants struggling to settle in the UK. * Times Higher Education *

Author Bio

Emily Dugan is Social Affairs Editor at the Independent, i and the Independent on Sunday. Her investigations into human trafficking have twice been awarded Best Investigative Article at the Anti-Slavery Day Media Awards and her human rights journalism was shortlisted for the Gaby Rado Memorial prize at the 2012 Amnesty Media Awards. This is her first book.