My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route

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Sally Hayden

My Fourth Time, We Drowned

Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route

Sally Hayden

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Fourth Estate
11 April 2022

True stories of heroism, endurance & survival; History; Refugees & political asylum; Human rights; Civil rights & citizenship; Human rights & civil liberties law

WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE

WINNER OF IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE

‘The most important work of contemporary reporting I have ever read’ SALLY ROONEY

The Western world has turned its back on refugees, fuelling one of the most devastating human rights disasters in history.

In August 2018, Sally Hayden received a Facebook message. ‘Hi sister Sally, we need your help,’ it read. ‘We are under bad condition in Libya prison. If you have time, I will tell you all the story.’ More messages followed from more refugees. They told stories of enslavement and trafficking, torture and murder, tuberculosis and sexual abuse. And they revealed something else: that they were all incarcerated as a direct result of European policy.

From there began a staggering investigation into the migrant crisis across North Africa. This book follows the shocking experiences of refugees seeking sanctuary, but it also surveys the bigger picture: the negligence of NGOs and corruption within the United Nations. The economics of the twenty-first-century slave trade and the EU’s bankrolling of Libyan militias. The trials of people smugglers, the frustrations of aid workers, the loopholes refugees seek out and the role of social media in crowdfunding ransoms. Who was accountable for the abuse? Where were the people finding solutions? Why wasn’t it being widely reported?

At its heart, this is a book about people who have made unimaginable choices, risking everything to survive in a system that wants them to be silent and disappear.

By: Sally Hayden
Imprint: Fourth Estate
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 37mm
Weight: 610g
ISBN: 9780008445584
ISBN 10: 0008445583
Pages: 496
Publication Date: 11 April 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sally Hayden is an award-winning journalist and photographer currently focused on migration, conflict and humanitarian crises. She has worked with VICE, VICE News, CNN International, the Financial Times, TIME, BBC, the Washington Post, the Irish Times, the Guardian, the New York Times, Magnum Photos, Channel 4 News, Foreign Policy, Al Jazeera, NBC News, the Sunday Times, Newsweek, RTE, ELLE, Marie Claire, ZEIT Online, the Independent, the Telegraph, Deutsche Welle, the New Statesman, the New Internationalist, the National, the Huffington Post and ITV News. HEFAT certified, Sally has reported from countries including Nigeria, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, France, Germany, Belgium, Burkina Faso, Ireland, Lebanon, Jordan, DR Congo, Panama, Cambodia, the Gambia, Liberia, Hungary, Luxembourg, Rwanda, Malawi, Ethiopia, Madagascar, the US, Italy, Kenya and Uganda. Her writing has been translated into nine languages and she has appeared as a guest on national and international media.

Reviews for My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route

'Journalism of the most urgent kind' Financial Times '[A] devastating, moving and damning account of one of the tragedies of our age ... Hayden never flinches in documenting human nature at its worst - its best is shown here, too' Irish Independent 'The most important work of contemporary reporting I have ever read ... I hope that Sally Hayden's work can help to begin a radically new and overdue discussion about Europe's approach to migration and borders' Sally Rooney 'What a devastating book about the catastrophic inhumanity of European migration policy. It's a journalistic masterpiece. Shattering stories. It absolutely demands to be read ... Essential' Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers 'Extremely good' Mark O'Connell, author of Notes from an Apocalypse 'Compassionate, brave, enraging, beautifully written and incredibly well researched. Hayden exposes the truth' Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland 'One of the most important testaments of this awful time in life's history. It is both heartbreaking and stoic. I cry reading any page of it. Sally Hayden is a young and brilliant journalist' Edna O'Brien, author of The Little Red Chairs 'Quite simply, an unexpected tour de force ... deserves critical acclaim and a wide readership ... I found this book unputtdownable' Jon Lee Anderson, staff writer at The New Yorker 'This vivid chronicle ... may make you cry, but it should make you angry ... A blistering rebuke' Lindsey Hilsum, International Editor of Channel 4 News 'A veritable masterclass in journalism ... The most riveting, detailed and damning account ever written on the deadliest of migration routes' Christina Lamb, Chief Foreign Correspondent of the Sunday Times 'Heart-stopping ... A vital book for anyone who wants to feel what it means to be human in the 21st century' Fintan O'Toole, author of We Don't Know Ourselves