My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route
Author: Sally Hayden
Publisher: HarperCollins, 4th Estate
Print Length: 448 pages
Genre: Non-Fiction / Journalism, Political Science, Migration & Refugee Studies
Area: Libya, North Africa
Topic: Lived Experience, Asylum & Asylum Seekers, Refugees & Forced Migration, Asylum & Refugee System, Migration, Politics & Power, Geopolitics, Biopolitics, Death & the Afterlife, Immigration System, Repression, Detention, Hope, Love, Survival, Resilience, Resistance, Social Justice
Winner of The Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2022
Winner of The Michel Déon Prize 2022
Winner of the An Post Irish Book of the Year Award 2022
Winner of the An Post Irish Book Award for Nonfiction 2022
A Financial Times Best Political Book of 2022
A Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of 2022
A New Yorker Best Book of 2022
A Guardian Best History and Politics Book of 2022
The Western world has turned its back on migrants, leaving them to cope with one of the most devastating humanitarian crises in history.
Reporter Sally Hayden was at home in London when she received a message on Facebook: “Hi sister Sally, we need your help.” The sender identified himself as an Eritrean refugee who had been held in a Libyan detention center for months, locked in one big hall with hundreds of others. Now, the city around them was crumbling in a scrimmage between warring factions, and they remained stuck, defenseless, with only one remaining hope: contacting her. Hayden had inadvertently stumbled onto a human rights disaster of epic proportions.
From this single message begins a staggering account of the migrant crisis across North Africa, in a groundbreaking work of investigative journalism. With unprecedented access to people currently inside Libyan detention centers, Hayden’s book is based on interviews with hundreds of refugees and migrants who tried to reach Europe and found themselves stuck in Libya once the EU started funding interceptions in 2017.
It is an intimate portrait of life for these detainees, as well as a condemnation of NGOs and the United Nations, whose abdication of international standards will echo throughout history. But most importantly, My Fourth Time, We Drowned shines a light on the resilience of humans: how refugees and migrants locked up for years fall in love, support each other through the hardest times, and carry out small acts of resistance in order to survive in a system that wants them to be silent and disappear.
Table of Contents
Maps
Timeline of Important Events and Relevant Statistics
A Note on Sources and Donations
Prologue — This SIM Card is our Life
1. Where It Ends and Where It Begins
2. Sudan: Through the Desert
3. Libya: The Twenty-First-Century Slave Trade
4. Ain Zara and Abu Salim: New Life and New Death
5. Libya: Escape to Hell
6. Triq al Sikka: Burnt Alive
7. Disunited Nations
8. Tunis: The Last Days of Rome
9. Abu Salim: Love Finds a Way
10. Khoms Souq al-Khamis: A Market of Human Beings
11. Sierra Leone: The Temple Run and the Left-Behind Women
12. Brussels: Migration Crisis ‘Over’
13. Triq al Sikka: Going Underground
14. Tripoli: War Erupts Again
15. Qasr bin Ghashir and Zawiya: Shots Fired
16. Zintan: Libya’s ‘Guantanamo’
17. UNHCR Gathering and Departure Facility: The Hotel
18. Tajoura: War Crimes and War Slaves
19. Rwanda: A New Route to Safety
20. Tripoli: Closing the Gathering and Departure Facility
21. The Mediterranean Sea: Fortress Europe
22. Addis Ababa: Smugglers on Trial
23. Paris and Berlin: Europe on the Dock
24. Europe: Home Sweet Home
Epilogue — Luxembourg: Essey
Author’s Note
A Note on Terminology
Acronyms
Acknowledgements
Notes and References
Sally Hayden is an award-winning journalist and photographer currently focused on migration, conflict and humanitarian crises. She has worked with various platform including VICE, CNN International, TIME, the Financial Times Magazine, BBC, and the Economist. She has a law degree from University College Dublin and an MSc in international politics from Trinity College, Dublin, where her thesis was on post-conflict societies and theories of civil war resolution. She has worked as a trainer at the BBC Academy; a guest lecturer at London College of Communication, New York University, Princeton, TU Dublin, Loyola Marymount and UCD; and volunteered as a mentor for the Refugee Journalism Project. She is currently an adjunct professor at the UCD Sutherland School of Law.
Source: https://sallyhayden.net/bio/
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