Refugees & Political Asylum

This book focuses on the stories of Syrians who have found refuge in Wales, based on their own oral testimonies. They were recorded as part of a re...

Luise Urban was born in 1933 into a world about to be turned upside down. Her family lived east of the river Oder. Fatefully, her family were not N...

Richard Sennett has spent an intellectual lifetime exploring how humans live in cities. In this pair of essays he visits two of the world's greates...

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

Drawing on Henrietta Szolds letters and diary, extensive research and historical sources of that time in Germany and Palestine, the book is a power...

From July to November 2021, Little Amal, a 3.5m-high puppet created by Handspring Puppet Company ('War Horse') will travel 8,000km from the Syria-T...

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

A clear and concise A-to-Z of keywords that echo our current human rights crisis As millions are forced to leave their nations of origin as a resul...

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

None of us had the faintest idea where we were going [but] during 1938aEURO39 . . . the town [Christchurch] was made strangely interesting for anyo...

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

In The Concerned Women of Buduburam, Elizabeth Holzer offers an unprecedented firsthand account of the rise and fall of social protests in a long-s...

In The World Refugees Made, Pamela Ballinger explores Italy's remaking in light of the loss of a wide range of territorial possessionscolonies, pro...

Refugees from the violence of wars and the brutality of famished lives have knocked on other people's doors since the beginning of time. For the pe...

A magisterial and masterful addition to the tradition of South African narrative non-fiction, Christa Kuljian's Sanctuary offers a welcome woman's ...

Told through the bright and unflinching eyes of Cat Thao, a daughter born in a refugee camp, We Are Here is a memoir that begins in 1975 with her f...