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The Immigration Handbook
The Immigration Handbook | Caroline Smith
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These poems are very moving and its hard to do justice to the way Caroline Smith conveys the anxieties, hopes and disappointments experienced by immigrants. She never allows the reader to forget that behind the refugee statistics there are suffering human beings; very often the victims of a seemingly insensitive and overstretched bureaucracy. Lord Alf Dubs The detail is magnificent ...there is an implicit tenderness and stoicism inthe lives of these characters which shines through. Angela Platt, Orbis Vividly detailed and emotionally powerful, The Immigration Handbook is as revealing as it is timely. Here we meet with the individuals that the news stories only speak of as numbers. These are lives fraught with violence and tragedy that Caroline Smith has encountered in her work as the asylum caseworker for a London MP. We journey with them through the labyrinthine government bureaucracies they must navigate to survive. With clarity and integrity she lays before us stories of stoic resilience and humorous forbearance, of kindness to others and of joy in the midst of sorrow. These are poems that step out of the headlines and into our hearts.
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Day 2 of 3 — immigration law seminar #LawyersofLitsy

merelybookish I hope you have a good book to relax with tonight! 7y
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The Immigration Handbook | Caroline Smith
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Ready to start 3 full days of legal professional development 💪🏼 #LawyersofLitsy

PandaPanda I didn't know you were a lawyer too! So many of us on here:) I can only imagine how complicated this workshop will be. Enjoy! 7y
hermyknee 🙌🏽 How did you get in to both education and law? So cool! 7y
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melbeautyandbooks You are one smart woman. Good luck with this important workshop! 7y
emmekamalei Awesome!! 7y
Alicia Yasss #litsyjusticeleague!!! How awesome!!! Immigration law is so complicated 🙈 you rock!! 💪🏽 7y
MicheleinPhilly You‘re a lawyer too? Damn girl! 🙌🏼 7y
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The Immigration Handbook | Caroline Smith

The Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry Shortlist has been announced.

Links to poems at bottom of page: http://poetrysociety.org.uk/competitions/ted-hughes-award/2016-2/

Jay Bernard for The Red and Yellow Nothing
Will Eaves for The Inevitable Gift Shop
Salena Godden for LIVEwire
Melissa Lee-Houghton for Sunshine
Harry Man for Finders Keepers
Hollie McNish for Nobody Told Me
Caroline Smith for The Immigration Handbook

#litsypoetry365