Social Science - Refugees

SILVER MEDAL WINNER IN NONFICTION FOR THE 95TH ANNUAL CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS A 2026 FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE AND THE PEN/GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION Five Days at Memorial meets Into the Raging Sea in this "vivid snapshot of a broken...

"Urgently required reading." --People"Deeply affecting... Fleming brings a moral urgency to the narrative." --The New Yorker"Fleming deftly illustrates the pain of those who choose to leave Syria...and her book is ultimately a story of hope." --Newsweek The stunning story of a young woman, an...

"This stunning meditation on nostalgia, heritage, and compassion asks us to dismantle the stories we've been told--and told ourselves--in order to naturalize the forms of injustice we've come to understand as order." --Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams When and how did migration...

A Woman is a School is the first memoir and cultural anthropological book by Slow Factory founder, Céline Semaan. As a war-survivor and child refugee sharing endangered and discredited ancestral knowledge of the Global South, particularly tales from Lebanon from 1948 to 2023-the book...

A searing account of three interconnected global crises that defined the 2010s, and a powerful invitation to respond with compassionate solidarity. In Ebola, Bombs, and Migrants, Dr. Joanne Liu, former International President of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières, draws on frontline experience to examine...

For the first time, a Rohingya speaks up to expose the persecution facing his people "I am three years old and will have to grow up with the hostility of others. I am already an outlaw in my own country, an outlaw in the...

AT THE FALL OF SAIGON, on April 30, 1975, thirteen-year-old Brian Thuan Luu's world changed forever. As chaos consumed the city, he faced an impossible choice: stay and risk an uncertain future or leave everything he had ever known behind. Making the fateful decision...

"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 and Detina Zalli always dreamed...

From an award-winning poet comes a humanizing story of immigration shown through the lens of undocumented, unaccompanied children and the poems they write."Heartfelt . . . a surprisingly uplifting call to reform an unjust system." -Publishers Weekly In heart-wrenching prose, Seth Michelson faces the...

Author: Julia F. IrwinPublisher: Oxford University PressPublished: 03/26/2026Pages: 176Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 6.97h x 5.60w x 0.42dISBN: 9780197753095About the AuthorJulia Irwin is the T. Harry Williams Professor of History at Louisiana State University. She earned her Ph.D. in History from Yale University. Her research...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Finalist for the Helen Bernstein Book Award "On the Move explains how we got here and where we're headed. It's crucial guide to the world we are creating." --Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky...

Ganador del Alex Award en 2022Ganador del Christopher Isherwood Prize en 2022 BESTSELLER DEL NEW YORK TIMES * RECOMENDADO POR JENNA BUSH EN SU CLUB DE LECTURA DEL TODAY SHOW Y EN SU PODCAST READ WITH JENNA Entre los 100 libros más notables del...

The first and only book to gather the voices and perspectives of Vietnamese diasporic authors from across the globe. Edited by Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Lan P. Duong, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Cleaving brings together Vietnamese artists and writers from around...

The narrow Darién Gap, the only land bridge connecting South and Central America, encompasses a spectacularly hostile jungle, covered in steep mountains, dense rainforests, and flood-prone marshes. Known in Spanish as el infierno verde, or "the green hell," it is one of the most...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen, called on 17 fellow refugee writers from across the globe to shed light on their experiences, and the result is The Displaced, a powerful dispatch from the individual lives behind current headlines. Today the...

The Rodriguez Family lived a life of wealth and luxury until January 1959 when Fidel's boisterous and celebratory caravan traveled through Cuba declaring the success of his Revolution.In the years to come life changed significantly, from the reframing of citizen rights to the rule...

Over 120 million people are forcibly displaced across the world. Among them are over 42 million refugees, people compelled to leave both their homes and their home nations. Whilst commonly misconceived as a burden, refugees are more enterprising than the rest of the population,...

An acclaimed reporter takes us on an unforgettable journey, capturing the human capacity for love and connection against all odds. We live in an era defined by crisis--whether it be war and displacement, climate collapse, or growing inequality, and how the powerful profit from...

A rousing, inspiring call-to-action that encourages us to embrace the economic potential of refugee women and break the invisible barriers that constrain their power Every day, thousands of women are forced from their homes by armed conflict, persecution, and violence. Jina Krause-Vilmar has spent...

From the celebrated poet, speaker, and educator comes Welcome Home, a powerful blueprint for building a strong foundation of self-worth, belonging, and happiness. "A master class in self-actualization and compassion."--Mari Andrew, New York Times bestselling author of Am I There Yet? The powerful metaphor...