The Outcasts

In The Outcasts, award-winning author and campaigning journalist Katharine Quarmby looks at the plight of the travelling community both in the UK and further afield. She weaves the inside story of the Dale Farm eviction into a larger tale  - of how Gypsies and Travellers have been seen in Europe for centuries - as a dehumanised group, not worthy of respect and subjected, all too often, to bitter hatred and contempt.

Katharine tells the story of particular families caught up in the battle for Dale Farm, and in other evictions, as well as investigating hidden hate crimes against the travelling community. Katharine also talks to leading politicians, prosecutors, police officers and those in the settled community who have strong views about the rights and wrongs of the travelling community.

This is Katharine’s second book for adults. Her first book, Scapegoat: why we are failing disabled people, an investigation of disability hate crime (Portobello Books, 2011), recently won a prestigious international prize, the Literature award from Ability Media International. 

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Katharine Quarmby is a writer, journalist and film-maker specialising in social affairs with an investigative edge. She has spent most of her working life as a journalist and has made many films for the BBC, as well as working as a correspondent for the Economist, contributing to British broadsheets, including the Guardian, Sunday Times and the Telegraph. She is now an associate editor at Prospect magazine, but also freelances regularly for other papers, including a stint providing roving political analysis for the Economist during the 2010 general election. Katharine read Modern Languages...
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