Asylum-seeker, Refugee - All the major parties in the British political landscape have brought these words to the top of the political agenda. Few commentators bother to look at the refugees themselves, and to imagine what it feels like to leave behind your home, your family, your life... Challenging the preconceptions on both sides of the political establishment, A Live Removed is both a compelling and a disturbing book, and a searing indictment of our failure to empathize...