Refugees and political asylum Books

Against the harsh realities of the Second Congo War, Cockroaches, God, Death, and Mangoes reveals an extraordinary tale of survival and resilience. When six-year-old Bikonzi and his family are torn from their home and thrust into the horrors of a...

Memoir by Sokunthary Svay, poet and musician. Svay chronicles her journey as child of Cambodian refugees who fled the Khmer Rouge in the 1980s to make a new life in New York. Sokunthary Svay was born in a refugee camp in Thailand shortly after her...

Critical Planning Futures brings together an international range of voices from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to explore new directions in planning theory, interrogate planning's orthodoxy, and push the boundaries of contemporary theory using ideas...

"Red Crow became the leader of the Bloods in 1870...the story of the chief's life as told by him in 1890 to R.N. Wilson...a story of horse stealing and many battles but it also shows the chief had mercy." -Calgary Herald, Feb. 17, 1967"As chief, Red Crow...

Diving into the depths of one of the most pressing issues of our time, "The Refugee Lie" uncovers a side of the refugee crisis rarely seen in mainstream discourse. It questions common narratives, sheds light on hidden truths, and provokes thought about...

Since the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, over 5.6 million people have fled Syria and another 6.6 million remain internally displaced. By January 2017, a total of 40,081 Syrians had sought refuge across Canada in the largest resettlement event...

This volume explores intergenerational trauma among refugee communities displaced throughout the world.

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the linkages between climate change and migration in South Asia.

This book explores the complex relationship between urban space and displacement in Turkey. It evaluates how the displacement of people and cultures has affected the spatiotemporal landscapes of the nation at different periods of contemporary Turkey.

This volume addresses the specific experiences and trajectories of forced migrants in Turkey in the context of local and national contexts and the future of EU-Turkey relations, presenting the demographics of forced migrants, the future plans of...

This text offers a comprehensive portfolio of approaches to support young children with refugee backgrounds. It covers trauma informed pedagogies, transitioning to school, authentic inclusion, play, social and emotional learning, and intergenerational...

The second edition of this well-regarded volume explores the societies of the Middle East and North Africa. Presenting original studies written by the world's leading MENA scholars, it sheds light upon the organizing structures, human vulnerabilities,...

Sanja Tesic, a child refugee, who says:"The war didn't kill me, it made me stronger", takes the reader through her life journey of being surrounded by the gun fire to immigrating to a country in which she could not speak nor understand the...

The author of Refugee Memoirs took on to emigrate out of the comfort of his family home and native country, as a teenager, not knowing perhaps, the full, life-changing implications laying ahead.Adventure and the unknown were the real drivers, under the...

The parentless Eba Yoko flees from his poverty-stricken country. Terrified of the murderous gangs, the corruption and the abject poverty. Hunted by violent smugglers, he survives a harsh journey through the desert and across the sea. Despite the...

Forced migration has become an inescapable reality of our world in the 21st century. Why? The traumatic experiences of refugees are key to understanding why people keep on the move despite enormous risks. This book sheds light into the psychological...

In 1980 Elaine Harvey worked for the International Red Cross in the Cambodian refugee camps immediately after the fall of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime. It was a time when sorrow fell like monsoon rain. “I was not a victim of war, poverty, or...

Questioning what shelter is and how we can define it, this volume brings together essays on different forms of refugee shelter, with a view to widening public understanding about the lives of forced migrants and developing theoretical understanding of...

The increased presence of Somalis has brought much change to East African towns and cities in recent decades, change that has met with ambivalence and suspicion, especially within Kenya. This volume demystifies Somali residence and mobility in urban East...

"Tortured by misfortune and blessed beyond my wildest dreams."...The unlikely story of how an armless Afghan boy became a world champion swimmer.God took my arms but he gave me THIS GIFT  by Anita...

In ihrem Buch beschreibt Marlene ihre unbeschwerte Kindheit als ostpreußische Bauerntochter, bis zu ihrer Flucht 1944 vor der roten Armee im Alter von 13 Jahren. Ihre Cousine Jutta blieb hinter dem Eisernen Vorhang zurück, was die familiären Bande...

"I left my home for a reason; security and dignity are worth it"Ali is a Sudanese man who fled his country to seek refuge in Libya, where he was treated as a slave, beaten close to death, payed ransom to militia and witnessed many murders...

Jesucristo, el refugiado: Un viaje de desplazamiento, fe y solidaridad divinaEn Jesucristo, el refugiado, Marien-Edgard Ngbali BEMI explora uno de los aspectos más ignorados de la vida de Jesús: su experiencia como refugiado. Profundizando en la...

Jesus-Cristo, o Refugiado: Uma viagem de deslocação, fé e solidariedade divinaEm Jesus-Cristo, o Refugiado, Marien-Edgard Ngbali BEMI explora um dos aspectos mais negligenciados da vida de Jesus - a sua experiência como refugiado. Mergulhando na...

In a California courtroom, seventeen-year-old Nou Lee reels with what she is about to do. What she must do to survive. She reflects on the splintered path that led to this moment, beginning twelve years ago in 1978, when her Hmong family escaped from...

"Readers will be fascinated. . . . A haunting reminder of how precious democracy is."--Kirkus ReviewsThe inspiring true story of the Zalli family, forced to rebuild their lives in a new, uncertain landBorn in poverty-stricken Albania, twin sisters Argita...

The Hmong are among Australia's newest immigrant populations. They came as refugees from Laos after the communist revolution of 1975 ended their life there as highland shifting cultivators. The Hmong originate from southern China where many still remain,...

In the first Quarterly Essay of 2004, Robert Manne tells the stories of individual asylum seekers and finds in their experience the seeds of a devastating critique. Balancing sorrow and pity with a controlled anger, Manne develops a sustained argument...

Bringing together the voices of nine individuals from an archive of over two hundred in-depth interviews with transnational migrants and refugees across five European countries, Finding Home in Europe critically engages with how home is experienced by...

During the past decade, Syria's displacement crisis has made the Middle East one of the world's foremost refugee-hosting regions. The measures to prevent refugees and migrants from leaving the region, and returning those who do, has made the region a...

Since the Iraq war, the Middle East has been in continuous upheaval, resulting in the displacement of millions of people. Arriving from Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, and Syria in other parts of the world, the refugees show remarkable resilience and...

This collection highlights the work of the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Urgent Anthropology Fellowships fund, which supports research into communities whose culture and social life are under immediate threat. Created by George Appell in...

Looking at refugee protection in Latin America, this landmark edited collection assesses what the region has achieved in recent years. It analyses Latin America's main documents in refugee protection, evaluates the particular aspects of different...

Britain's coalition government of 2010-2015 ushered in an enduring age of austerity and a ""moral mission"" of welfare reform as part of a drive for deficit reduction. Stricter controls were applied to both domestic welfare and international migration...

About Me and The Honolka StoryAccording to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, a writer is 'one who expresses ideas in writing' or 'one engaged in literary work. 'An author is 'a person who writes a novel, poem, essay etc., the composer of a literary work...

Although refugees have been pushed into the spotlight over the past few years, particularly as a result of the Syrian crisis, they are never far from public consciousness or policy debates. Based on years of close community and academic involvement in...

Every country has dark moments in its history. Some are the result of considered actions that only become dark in retrospect, when the morals of the time evolve; others are morally indefensible even at the time of commission. Here in Australia, we have...

அறிமுகம்: குடிபெயர்வின் பயணம், புதிய உலகில் செல்வதுகுடிபெயர்வு என்பது ஒரு நபர் அல்லது குடும்பம் ஒரு நாட்டிலிருந்து மற்றொரு நாட்டிற்கு செல்லும் செயல்முறையாகும். இது பல்வேறு காரணங்களுக்காக மேற்கொள்ளப்படலாம், அவை பொருளாதார, அரசியல், அல்லது சமூக காரணிகளை...

"There is no greater gesture of generosity than authenticity." - Érika Ordosgoitti, from the foreword In Indomitable Forces, students of Wells High School examine this concept of belongingness and liberation, more specifically critiquing...

Behrouz Boochani, author, filmmaker and journalist wrote his profound and powerful poetic political manifesto A Letter From Manus Island after four years incarceration as a stateless refugee on Manus in Australian-run camps. His letter, a humanitarian...

This concise yet comprehensive study explores the emblematic journey by four young men from Liverpool from the epicentre of teen-led youth culture to the experimentation of the counterculture and beyond. Beginning with the celebration of Britain's own...

Throughout the 1930s and early 1940s, approximately ninety thousand German Jews fled their homeland and settled in the United States, prior to that nation closing its borders to Jewish refugees. And even though many of them wanted little to do with...

Making Home(s) in Displacement critically rethinks the relationship between home and displacement from a spatial, material, and architectural perspective. Recent scholarship in the social sciences has investigated how migrants and refugees create and...