Integra: Stories of Home and Displacement

Integra, a Latin word, means 'something which is whole.'

Integra explores home, place and travel as inner and outer experiences. What kind of home do we want to create and where and how will we create it? Why do we travel, and why do we return home? Exploring those who travel by choice and those displaced through global struggle, Integra takes a compassionate look at our deeply human needs and examines a system which does not honour our basic humanity.

Integra spans the author's own travels beginning at age eight, and woven throughout are: tales of the travelling hipsies of England and Ireland; refugees around the world; a young woman finding home in the LGBT community. We travel from Bangui to Kinshasa on diplomatic work, into the village birthing houses in the Ivory Coast and Kenya; to Jordan and Palestine and Little Tibet; to the detention centres on the periphery of Europe; and across the Sahara desert with Amanuel who fled his country.

This book, like Antoine Cassar’s 'Passport', is ‘Valid for all peoples’.