The Asylum Seekers (Creative Nonfiction), Wellesley, MA
Testimonials and stories of asylum seekers in ICE detention centers captured by an immigration interpreter reveal unconscionable abuses in the prisons where they are detained.
“It is important to bring a human face to the sprawling dysfunction that is the global immigration crisis so that a culture of compassion may replace one of cruelty.”
Elizabeth Wellington traveled the world alone at age sixteen and lived in India, Spain, and Italy. After earning a Master of Arts from Johns Hopkins University and a PhD from Boston University, she held faculty appointments at Boston University, Simmons, Babson, and Wellesley College. Her experience as a translator at the FAO/United Nations has served her well in her present work as an immigration interpreter. In 2016, she published a work of fiction based on true life experiences in a traveling tent circus. “The Asylum Seekers” is her first attempt to capture true events as a work of creative non-fiction.
Visit her website: www.circusgirlnovel.com