Refugees & Political Asylum

*Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2017* In 2011, many Syrians took to the streets of Damascus to demand the overthrow of the government o...

A new edition of this seminal book, now with a new introduction by the author on the current crisisHow can society cope with the diaspora of the tw...

In the opening decades of the twentieth century, Germany was at the cutting edge of arts and humanities scholarship across Europe. However, when ma...

This poignant collection of oral histories tells the stories of nine Laotians, four Cambodians and nine Vietnamese: what their lives were like b...

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

The history of Europe as a continent of refugeesEuropean history has been permeated with refugees. The Outsiders chronicles every major refugee mov...

The seas are filled with migrants risking their lives on perilous crossings; Europe is engulfed by xenophobia and fear. In the cities and towns, in...

Ilhan Omar’s career is a collection of historic firsts: she is the first refugee, the first Somali-American and one of the first two Muslim women t...

Today, 426 million children are growing up in war zones. Since 1919 Save the Children has been protecting and promoting the well-being of childre...

  A poignant story of three young adults trying to make a future for themselves in war-torn Damascus Syria - a country at war. Amal, Hammoudi and...

Today, no one really thinks of Britain as a land of camps. Camps seem to happen 'elsewhere', from Greece, to Palestine, to the global South. Yet ov...

A riveting, real-life equivalent of The Kite Runner-an astonishingly powerful and profoundly moving story of a young couple willing to risk everyth...

Writings on human life and the refugee crisis by the most important political artist of our timeAi Weiwei (b. 1957) is widely known as an artist ac...

This compelling book is the result of a project intended to visually communicate the hardships endured by Iraqi communities. Utilizing art material...

People in danger have received protection in communities beyond their own from the earliest times of recorded history. The causes — war, conflict, ...

For over forty years, Cold War concerns about the threat of communism shaped the contours of refugee and asylum policy in the United States, and th...