Refugees & Political Asylum

––– GUARDIAN GRAPHIC NOVEL OF THE YEAR ––– ––– OBSERVER GRAPHIC NOVEL OF THE MONTH ––– THE GROUNDBREAKING GRAPHIC NOVEL A story about ordinary...

*Winner of the International Political Sociology book award for 2023*What does it mean when humanitarianism is the response to death, injury and su...

Bringing together a range of perspectives to examine the full impact of political, socio-economic or psychological experiences of exile, Performing...

Twelve-year-old Adel and his cousin Shafi try to lead a normal childhood in war-torn Afghanistan. But when Adel’s father dies, everything changes. ...

'To risk my life had to mean something. Otherwise what was it all for?' Gulwali Passarlay was sent away from Afghanistan at the age of twelve, afte...

'This book celebrates human resilience and the capacity for hope, serving as a powerful call for tolerance.' - Observer'Heartfelt, eye-opening, tim...

This book explores how the rising numbers of refugees entering Europe from 2015 onwards played into fears of cultural, religious, and ethnic differ...

By foot, in buses, prison vans and trains, a steady stream of refugees traveled from the Greek island of Lesbos into Europe. In the autumn of 2015,...

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence This ground breaking book presents the first evidence of forced labour among displaced migrants who...

Diaspora Jews are increasingly likely to criticise Israel and support Palestinian rights. In the USA, Europe and elsewhere, Jewish organisations ha...

More than 130,000 South Vietnamese fled their homeland at the end of the Vietnam War. Tens of thousands landed on the island of Guam on their wa...

One of the first unaccompanied refugee children to enter the United States in 2000, after South Sudan's second civil war took the lives of most of ...

They arrive from around the world for countless reasons. Many come simply to make a living. Others are fleeing persecution in their native countrie...

In the current geopolitical climate—in which unaccompanied children cross the border in record numbers, and debates on the topic swing violently fr...

In 2015, ever more people from Africa and the Near East took flight and sought refuge in Europe. By the end of that year, some 1.8 million migrants...

Children from abroad who are alone in the UK are vulnerable and at increased risk of harm without the care and protection of their parents or careg...

Every minute 24 people are forced to leave their homes and over 65 million are currently displaced world-wide. Small wonder that tackling the refug...

This modern classic of LGBT writing includes an introduction from Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties, and a new afterword f...