Books about refugees & asylum seekers
Refugee Rights and Policy Wrongs
Everyone has the right to seek asylum under international law, but public discourse in Australia about refugees is dominated by scare-mongering and political point-scoring. Jane McAdam and Fiona Chong provide a wholly updated...
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The Road Before Me Weeps
A powerful and revealing firsthand account of the migrant and refugee experience on the overland route across Europe
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Drawn To Berlin
Fitzgerald's graphic memoir entwines political and personal displacement.
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No Friend But the Mountains
An account of life inside Manus detention centre, from journalist and asylum-seeker Behrouz Boochani.
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Watching Brief
In Watching Brief, noted lawyer and human rights advocate Julian Burnside articulates a sensitive and intelligent defence of the rights of asylum seekers and refugees, and the importance of protecting human rights and maintaining...
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The Power of Hope
A powerful, inspiring memoir from Kon Karapanagiotidis, founder of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, which argues that by putting community, love and compassion at the centre of our lives, we have the power to change our...
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Violent Borders
A major new exploration of the refugee crisis, focusing on how borders are formed and policed
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We Built the Wall
An immersive, engrossing story of a new front in the immigration wars.
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Against the Double Blackmail
How do we respond to the refugee crisis - by opening our doors, or pulling up the drawbridge? Both solutions, argues Slavoj Zizek, offer ideological blackmail, and both are wrong. He proposes that instead we see the crisis as an...
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The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif
Traces the story of an Afghani refugee's journey from shepherd boy in the mountains of northern Afghanistan and his flight from certain death by the Taliban, to owner of a successful traditional rug shop in Melbourne.
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#cook for Syria
A special edition cookbook consisting of Syrian-inspried recipes from the the Uk's top chefs and cookbook authors to raise funds and awareness for Unicef's Syria relief find.
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Asylum by Boat
In the late 1970s, 150,000 Vietnamese, Cambodians and Laotians arrived in Australia by boat, fleeing war and oppression. This influx of people, and the way the Fraser government handled it, marked not only the real end of the...
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Syrian Dust: Reporting from the Heart of the War
August 21, 2013: a chemical weapons attack on the suburbs of Damascus reminds the world of the existence of the Syrian war. Hundreds of journalists from every corner of the world rush to the frontier only to leave disappointed...
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We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled
In 2011, millions of Syrians took to the streets demanding freedom and dignity. The government's ferocious response, and the demonstrators' refusal to back down, sparked a brutal war that escalated into one of the worst...
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What Is A Refugee?
With the arrival in Europe of over a million refugees and asylum seekers in 2015, a sense of panic began to spread within the continent and beyond. What is a Refugee? puts these developments into historical context, injecting...
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The Optician of Lampedusa
From an award-winning BBC journalist, this moving book turns the testimony of an accidental hero into a timeless story about human fellowship and the awakening of courage and conscience.'I can hardly begin to describe...
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Beautiful Balts
170,000 Displaced Persons arrived in Australia between 1947 and 1952 - the first non-Anglo-Celtic mass migrants. Australia's first immigration minister, Arthur Calwell.....
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Offshore: Behind the wire on Manus and Nauru
What has happened on Nauru and Manus since Australia began its most recent offshore processing regime in 2012? This essential book provides a comprehensive and uncompromising overview of the first three years of...
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