Cast Away: Refugee Crisis

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What I think of citizenship will differ from others due to our education and our personal lives. Citizenship means to me, that it is the place to at which the person has spent the longest period at, possibly where they were born, where they most feel comfortable and somewhere they can be treated as equal. Many of those statements aren’t the case for a clear majority of the countries. In the book, Cast Away: True Stories of Survival from Europe’s refugee crisis by Charlotte McDonalds-Gibson, this book is about the refugee crisis due to the strife within the countries of the Middle East, and Northern Africa. The people that were featured in the book were all from difference places, Syria, Eritrea, and countries alike, all seeking a better living

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