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Threads from the Refugee Crisis

“Gripping and beautiful… This is comics journalism at its finest” Alison Bechdel

“A hugely moving tribute to human compassion and solidarity… it urges us to think and to act” Morning Star

“The threads of these people’s lives coalesce to form a bigger picture with an underlying message: we need to treat our fellow humans with care and respect” Times Literary Supplement

Winner of the John Laurence Award

Winner of the Broken Frontier Award for Graphic Non-Fiction

The first graphic novel ever to be listed for the Orwell Prize

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Threads from the Refugee Crisis documents a sequence of short visits that Kate Evans made to the Calais Jungle and Dunkirk refugee camps in Northern France in 2015 and 2016.

"I have never been so strongly inspired to draw what I have encountered, and try to make people understand the insanity and inhumanity of the current situation."

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Threads from the Refugee Crisis is published in the US and UK by Verso Books.

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International editions:

Arabic: Nool – Korean: Green Knowledge – Portuguese (Brazilian): DarkSide Books – Serbian: Fabrika Knjiga – Swedish: Epix Bokforlag – Turkish: Tudem

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sun sets over the Calais Jungle refugee camp 2016

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Escape to Safelandia

After completing Threads, Evans returned to the theme of immigration to create an accessible, informative "choose your own misadventure" story about the UK immigration system.

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