Refugee/Immigrant/Asylee Non Fiction

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The Damned Balkans: A Refugee Road Trip
The Damned Balkans: A Refugee Road Trip 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After 4.19 avg rating — 24,694 ratings
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Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions 4.39 avg rating — 16,459 ratings
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The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life
The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life 4.15 avg rating — 2,024 ratings
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A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival 4.33 avg rating — 6,232 ratings
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Luck Follows the Brave: From Refugee Camps, Abuse, and Suicide Loss to Living the Dream
Luck Follows the Brave: From Refugee Camps, Abuse, and Suicide Loss to Living the Dream 4.56 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Refugees
The Refugees 3.86 avg rating — 21,720 ratings
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The Best We Could Do
The Best We Could Do
by: Thi Bui
4.36 avg rating — 38,830 ratings
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The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives 4.36 avg rating — 2,281 ratings
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No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison
No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison 3.90 avg rating — 8,886 ratings
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Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 4.01 avg rating — 70,872 ratings
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 4.16 avg rating — 192,425 ratings
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When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace 4.12 avg rating — 4,293 ratings
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City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp
City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp 4.02 avg rating — 3,370 ratings
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Denied, Detained, Deported: Stories from the Dark Side of American Immigration
Denied, Detained, Deported: Stories from the Dark Side of American Immigration 3.82 avg rating — 277 ratings
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The Story Keeper
The Story Keeper 4.32 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Good Morning, Hope: A True Story of Refugee Twin Sisters and Their Triumph over War, Poverty, and Heartbreak
Good Morning, Hope: A True Story of Refugee Twin Sisters and Their Triumph over War, Poverty, and Heartbreak 4.57 avg rating — 1,239 ratings
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Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States
Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Ungrateful Refugee
The Ungrateful Refugee 4.06 avg rating — 5,307 ratings
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Mother and the Tiger: A Memoir of the Killing Fields
Mother and the Tiger: A Memoir of the Killing Fields 4.36 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees: A Graphic Novel
The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees: A Graphic Novel
by: Don Brown
4.06 avg rating — 3,744 ratings
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The Fox Hunt: A Refugee's Memoir of Coming to America
The Fox Hunt: A Refugee's Memoir of Coming to America 4.17 avg rating — 1,556 ratings
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The Return
The Return 4.16 avg rating — 14,620 ratings
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Russian Tattoo: A Memoir
Russian Tattoo: A Memoir 4.05 avg rating — 1,219 ratings
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They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan
They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan 4.21 avg rating — 10,210 ratings
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Beautiful Country
Beautiful Country 4.17 avg rating — 37,469 ratings
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The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis
The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis 4.43 avg rating — 1,583 ratings
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Tales from a Mountain City: A Vietnam War Memoir
Tales from a Mountain City: A Vietnam War Memoir 3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees
Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees 4.07 avg rating — 314 ratings
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This Is Paradise!: My North Korean Childhood
This Is Paradise!: My North Korean Childhood
by: Hyok Kang
3.84 avg rating — 1,490 ratings
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Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move
Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move 4.02 avg rating — 858 ratings
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Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look Inside North Korea
Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look Inside North Korea 4.33 avg rating — 9,246 ratings
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Even After All This Time: A Story of Love, Revolution, and Leaving Iran
Even After All This Time: A Story of Love, Revolution, and Leaving Iran 4.06 avg rating — 551 ratings
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Dreamers: An Immigrant Generation's Fight for Their American Dream
Dreamers: An Immigrant Generation's Fight for Their American Dream 4.05 avg rating — 109 ratings
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Water Tossing Boulders: How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools in the Jim Crow South
Water Tossing Boulders: How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools in the Jim Crow South 3.77 avg rating — 223 ratings
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The Four Immigrants Manga : A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924
The Four Immigrants Manga : A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924 3.76 avg rating — 234 ratings
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Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West
Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West
by: Zoya Phan
4.03 avg rating — 662 ratings
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Jeegareh Ma
Jeegareh Ma 4.15 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Breaking Free: True Stories of Girls Who Escaped Modern Slavery
Breaking Free: True Stories of Girls Who Escaped Modern Slavery
by: Abby Sher
3.88 avg rating — 342 ratings
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East in Eden
East in Eden 4.17 avg rating — 269 ratings
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Näher an die Ferne: Hologramm einer Reise (Veröffentlichungen des Südostdeutschen Kulturwerks)
Näher an die Ferne: Hologramm einer Reise (Veröffentlichungen des Südostdeutschen Kulturwerks) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Stateless in South Asia: The Chakmas between Bangladesh and India (SAGE Studies on India′s North East)
Stateless in South Asia: The Chakmas between Bangladesh and India (SAGE Studies on India′s North East) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Fake Smiles and Lasagna
Fake Smiles and Lasagna 4.12 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Left Across the Border: A Story of Teen Depression (Teen & Depression #1)
Left Across the Border: A Story of Teen Depression (Teen & Depression #1) 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Mestizos Come Home!: Making and Claiming Mexican American Identity (Volume 19) (Chicana and Chicano Visions of the Américas Series)
Mestizos Come Home!: Making and Claiming Mexican American Identity (Volume 19) (Chicana and Chicano Visions of the Américas Series) 4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Living For Higher Purpose: Story of a City Boy Who Survived the Vietnam War by Living for Jesus and Others
Living For Higher Purpose: Story of a City Boy Who Survived the Vietnam War by Living for Jesus and Others 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Little Failure
Little Failure 3.66 avg rating — 7,702 ratings
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The Unenviable: Stories of Psychological Trauma and Hardship among Immigrants and their Families.
The Unenviable: Stories of Psychological Trauma and Hardship among Immigrants and their Families. 4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Vallende bladeren
Vallende bladeren 3.91 avg rating — 28,925 ratings
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Rescue: Refugees and the Political Crisis of Our Time (TED Books)
Rescue: Refugees and the Political Crisis of Our Time (TED Books) 3.84 avg rating — 345 ratings
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Journeys: An American Story
Journeys: An American Story 3.81 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Cork Wars: Intrigue and Industry in World War II
Cork Wars: Intrigue and Industry in World War II 3.98 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Disturbed in Their Nests: A Journey from Sudan’s Dinkaland to San Diego’s City Heights
Disturbed in Their Nests: A Journey from Sudan’s Dinkaland to San Diego’s City Heights 4.44 avg rating — 404 ratings
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Between Everything and Nothing
Between Everything and Nothing
by: Joe Meno
4.27 avg rating — 214 ratings
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At the End of the World, Turn Left
At the End of the World, Turn Left 3.52 avg rating — 332 ratings
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Man at the Airport: How Social Media Saved My Life
Man at the Airport: How Social Media Saved My Life 4.22 avg rating — 108 ratings
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Somewhere in the Unknown World
Somewhere in the Unknown World 4.45 avg rating — 731 ratings
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Beyond the Sand and Sea: One Family's Quest for a Country to Call Home
Beyond the Sand and Sea: One Family's Quest for a Country to Call Home 4.23 avg rating — 278 ratings
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Uprooted and Thriving: One Man's Journey From Afghanistan to Becoming a Canadian
Uprooted and Thriving: One Man's Journey From Afghanistan to Becoming a Canadian
by: Bari Emam
4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Forgotten Refugees: Two Iraqi Brothers in India
Forgotten Refugees: Two Iraqi Brothers in India 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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A Place for Us: A Greek Immigrant Boy's Odyssey to a New Country and an Unknown Father
A Place for Us: A Greek Immigrant Boy's Odyssey to a New Country and an Unknown Father 4.32 avg rating — 312 ratings
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The Lights in the Distance
The Lights in the Distance 4.22 avg rating — 200 ratings
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Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History
Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings
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When Stars Are Scattered: (National Book Award Finalist)
When Stars Are Scattered: (National Book Award Finalist) 4.60 avg rating — 31,201 ratings
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In the Shadow of the Banyan
In the Shadow of the Banyan 4.07 avg rating — 21,739 ratings
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Lucky Ones: Stories of Australian refugee journeys
Lucky Ones: Stories of Australian refugee journeys really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis 4.47 avg rating — 6,892 ratings
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Asylum Denied: A Refugee's Struggle for Safety in America
Asylum Denied: A Refugee's Struggle for Safety in America 4.04 avg rating — 300 ratings
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Vietnam My Great Escape
Vietnam My Great Escape
by: Tina Bui
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Dagen des doods
Dagen des doods
by: Mwafaq A.
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Echoes from Dharamsala: Music in the Life of a Tibetan Refugee Community
Echoes from Dharamsala: Music in the Life of a Tibetan Refugee Community 3.88 avg rating — 26 ratings
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1958: A Year to Remember
1958: A Year to Remember 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Closing of the American Border: Terrorism, Immigration, and Security Since 9/11
The Closing of the American Border: Terrorism, Immigration, and Security Since 9/11 3.68 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Empower a Refugee: Peace of Thread & the Backyard Humanity Movement
Empower a Refugee: Peace of Thread & the Backyard Humanity Movement 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948 4.03 avg rating — 8,267 ratings
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The Mountains Sing
The Mountains Sing 4.31 avg rating — 57,506 ratings
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Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System
Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System 4.16 avg rating — 474 ratings
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The Happiest Refugee
The Happiest Refugee
by: Anh Do
4.24 avg rating — 17,442 ratings
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Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness
Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness 4.04 avg rating — 17,102 ratings
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Seeking Refuge: On the Shores of the Global Refugee Crisis
Seeking Refuge: On the Shores of the Global Refugee Crisis 4.38 avg rating — 784 ratings
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Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History
Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History 4.31 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Crying in H Mart
Crying in H Mart 4.24 avg rating — 555,737 ratings
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My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route
My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route 4.49 avg rating — 1,765 ratings
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The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail
The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail 4.32 avg rating — 2,439 ratings
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Detained, Denied, Deported: Asylum Seekers in the U. S.
Detained, Denied, Deported: Asylum Seekers in the U. S. really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Unpolished Gem
Unpolished Gem 3.61 avg rating — 2,752 ratings
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Dust Child
Dust Child 4.23 avg rating — 17,845 ratings
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Conversations from Calais: Sharing Refugee Stories
Conversations from Calais: Sharing Refugee Stories 4.87 avg rating — 52 ratings
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New Destination Dreaming: Immigration, Race, and Legal Status in the Rural American South
New Destination Dreaming: Immigration, Race, and Legal Status in the Rural American South 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Her Father's Daughter
Her Father's Daughter 3.94 avg rating — 856 ratings
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The Land between Two Rivers: Writing in an Age of Refugees
The Land between Two Rivers: Writing in an Age of Refugees 3.47 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security
Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security 4.17 avg rating — 340 ratings
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Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes 4.31 avg rating — 2,662 ratings
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Hope Not Fear
Hope Not Fear 4.62 avg rating — 599 ratings
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The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World
The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World 3.74 avg rating — 295 ratings
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The Good Immigrant
The Good Immigrant 4.31 avg rating — 13,732 ratings
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Refugees, the State and the Politics of Asylum in Africa (St Antony's Series)
Refugees, the State and the Politics of Asylum in Africa (St Antony's Series) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Inheriting the War: Poetry and Prose by Descendants of Vietnam Veterans and Refugees
Inheriting the War: Poetry and Prose by Descendants of Vietnam Veterans and Refugees 4.26 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Lightless Sky: A Twelve-Year-Old Refugee's Harrowing Escape from Afghanistan and His Extraordinary Journey Across Half the World
The Lightless Sky: A Twelve-Year-Old Refugee's Harrowing Escape from Afghanistan and His Extraordinary Journey Across Half the World 4.52 avg rating — 3,197 ratings
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The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness
The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness 4.03 avg rating — 1,339 ratings
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