My Fourth Time We Drowned

The general take

Robert Evans and James Stout both praise Sally Hayden's book as important and well-reported, with Evans recommending it for learning about Europe's Libya involvement and Stout highlighting how it treats migrants as individuals with stories rather than statistics. They agree it's valuable but emotionally heavy—Stout calls it a "difficult read" and cautions against reading it before bed, while Evans notes it's "heartbreaking."

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"A magnificent, engagé investigative report… [an] act of witness...It is clear from [Hayden’s book] that the current politics of immigration have turned & twisted human nature against itself and our own kind and are fostering unimaginable maltreatment of those who wish only to survive and live a better life… [It] strongly convey[s] the urgency of fundamentally rethinking immigration policy… It is already late to act, but that is a poor reason for inaction.”

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  James Stout👍 Recommends

  …discussing sally hayden's book about eu treatment of migrants in libya

  “It's called My Fourth Time We Drowned. Very good book. Difficult read, I would say. It very much is some of the type of reporting that I try and do myself on migration and that it talks about people, not numbers. And it centers migrants as individuals with stories. It's a great book, but probably not one to read, you know, right before bed.”

  Behind the Bastards — It Could Happen Here Weekly 230at 55:55

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