Social Issues & Processes

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...

This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to definition of torture by bringing together behavioral science and international law perspective...

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...

A collection of serial poems, Think of Lampedusa addresses the 2013 shipwreck that killed 366 Africans attempting to migrate secretly to Lampedusa,...

*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...

For many years after that night, my memories of what happened after he held the blade to my throat and threatened my life were fragmented...difficu...

This volume explores the life stories of Elizabeth Bishop, Virginia Woolf, Alice James, and Edith Wharton, whose individuation process mirrored Dem...

Wars are frequently justified 'in our name'. Militarist values and practices co-opt us, permeating our language, invading our dream space, entertai...

This is a volume of essays on post-civil war Central American narrative, bringing together leading experts in Central American literary and cultura...

Adolescent violence is a very visible violence in our modern society, where you just have to open the newspaper or the television and you find your...

The remarkable story of how a consul and his allies helped save thousands of Jews from the Holocaust in one of the greatest rescue operations of th...

'Extraordinary yet previously untold true story . . . meticulously researched . . . it's also taut, compelling, and impossible to put down' Daily E...

For decades, immigration has been one of the most divisive, contentious topics in American politics. And for decades, urgent calls for its policy r...

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...

Outback noir has a new star MARK SANDERSON, The Times Deliciously dark ALISON FLOOD, Guardian Outback noir with the noir dialled right up. I lov...

Ilhan Omars career is a collection of historic firsts: she is the first refugee, the first Somali-American and one of the first two Muslim women to...

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...