Refugees & political asylum books

Over one million refugees left Russia at the Bolshevik Revolution. The pain of losing one's homeland may fade, but...  Read More >>

This book explores relationships between war, displacement and city-making. Focusing on people seeking refuge in...  Read More >>

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This book about Kathrine Talbot (close friend of poet Elizabeth Bishop) fuses literary biography and concise accounts...  Read More >>

This collection analyses the concept of minority and minorities in global history. Taking transnational, transregional...  Read More >>

An electrifying wild ride of a debut novel from award-winning playwright Anders Lustgarten Meet Cherry, a bandit...  Read More >>

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The extraordinary and uplifting true story of one boy's journey across the world to escape death, war and destruction,...  Read More >>

The extraordinary and uplifting true story of one boy's journey across the world to escape death, war and destruction,...  Read More >>

‘Important, comprehensive, and superbly researched. All the more urgent at the present time’ BART VAN ES How...  Read More >>

Taken together, this body of work examines how Australia has politicised the right to seek asylum, to the detriment...  Read More >>

"""Tortured by misfortune and blessed beyond my wildest dreams.""...The unlikely story of how an armless Afghan...  Read More >>

While scholarship on refugee migration tends to center on the Global North, most refugees actually reside in the...  Read More >>

While scholarship on refugee migration tends to center on the Global North, most refugees actually reside in the...  Read More >>

In The Manicurist’s Daughter, an emotionally raw memoir, Susan Lieu faces her family’s harrowing story: Vietnamese...  Read More >>

Drawing together previously disjointed scholarship on the topic of asylum and conversion from Islam to Christianity,...  Read More >>

Paul Wojdak's father, Pawel, was born in 1912 in Novosibirsk, Siberia. During the 1800s, many Polish people were...  Read More >>

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Paul Wojdak's father, Pawel, was born in 1912 in Novosibirsk, Siberia. During the 1800s, many Polish people were...  Read More >>

A rich interdisciplinary study of the diversity and dynamics of the migrations of displaced peoples across the Global...  Read More >>

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Schooling for Refugee Children presents the views of children displaced from Syria to the Lebanese borders and London....  Read More >>

**A Guardian book to look out for in 2024** 'An exceptional book: a mediation on family; an interrogation of movement...  Read More >>

Schooling for Refugee Children presents the views of children displaced from Syria to the Lebanese borders and London....  Read More >>