Standstill Lives

In one year 5,000 people drowned in the Mediterranean while trying to reach Europe. But how life is like for those arriving? Bel Olid bluntly exposes the collection of shame and humiliation that suffer this collective of hundreds of thousands of people scaping from war and poverty. Seeking refuge in a Europe that systematically stops them and condemn them to a death sentence to the sea or to a subhuman life in inhospitable refugee camps.

Witnes in first person to approach us the daily life of this tragedy that has names, personal stories very similar to ours that deserve to be heard. The book brings us a striking reality and forces us to take part: if we do nothing, we shall become accomplices.