![]() ![]() ![]() Since then it has grown into a large sprawling city in the parched desert where generations of Somali refugees are born and where the majority of those will die. " Located on Kenya’s border with Somalia, Dadaab was established in 1992 to house around 90,000 refugees from the civil war there. The book's thesis can be summarized in that "the quintessential refugee experience is not so much of movement as being stuck, physically and psychologically, individually and collectively. Generally, the book follows the stories of nine people narratively through their respective journeys through Dadaab, the world's largest refugee camp, home to about 350,000 people (although the exact number is unknown and contentious). ![]() City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp is a history biography nonfiction work published in 2016 by Picador in the UK and Thorndike Press in the US, and written by author, journalist Ben Rawlence. ![]()
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