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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 30 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Black Ghosts: A Journey Into the Lives of Africans in China by Noo Saro-Wiwa
    Black Ghosts: A Journey Into the Lives of Africans in China - by Noo Saro-Wiwa

    £14.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781838856946 | ISBN 10: 1838856943

    The travel memoir of a Nigerian woman in China exploring the intersections and divides between the two cultures and the lives of African economic migrants in the bustling People’s Republic.  China today is a land of opportunity for African ... more

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  • Cover image of book America Made Me a Black Man by Boyah J Farah
    America Made Me a Black Man - by Boyah J Farah

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781398504844 | ISBN 10: 139850484x

    A searing memoir of American racism from a Somali-American who survived hardships in his birth country only to experience firsthand the dehumanization of Black people in his adopted land, the United States.  “No one told me about America.†... more

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  • Cover image of book My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World
    My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route - by Sally Hayden

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780008445614 | ISBN 10: 0008445613

    WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE 2022 WINNER OF THE MICHEL DÉON PRIZE 2022  ‘The most important work of contemporary reporting I have ever read’ SALLY ROONEY  The Western world has turned its back on refugees, fuelling one of the most devasta ... more

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  • Cover image of book Finding Refuge by Andrea Hammel
    Finding Refuge - by Andrea Hammel

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781912905683 | ISBN 10: 191290568x

    Insightful, first-hand accounts of refugees fleeing Nazism.   A popular history telling the stories of people who found refuge in Wales from Nazism in the 1930s and 1940s.  Finding Refuge will resonate with those who have personal ex ... more

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  • Cover image of book In the Wars: From Afghanistan to the UK and Beyond, A Refugee
    In the Wars: From Afghanistan to the UK and Beyond, A Refugee's Story of Survival and Saving Lives - by Dr Waheed Arian

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780552177641 | ISBN 10: 0552177644

    'A riveting story of loss, exile, and rebirth.' KHALED HOSSEINI, author of The Kite Runner  'One of the most incredible life stories you will ever hear.' JAMES O'BRIEN  'A remarkable story. I thought this book was brilliant.' NAGA MUNCHET ... more

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  • Cover image of book Aftershocks: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Identity by Nadia Owusu
    Aftershocks: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Identity - by Nadia Owusu

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529342895 | ISBN 10: 1529342899

    *** ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S ‘BEST BOOKS OF 2021’ ***  I have lived in disaster and disaster has lived in me. Our shared languages are thunder and reverberation.  When Nadia Owusu was two years old her mother abandoned her and her ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant
    This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto - by Suketu Mehta

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529112955 | ISBN 10: 1529112958

    An impassioned defence of global immigration from the acclaimed author of Maximum City.  Drawing on his family's own experience emigrating from India to Britain and America, and years of reporting around the world, Suketu Mehta subjects the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Football Without Borders: The Lives and Times of a Refugee Football Club by Chris Allen
    Football Without Borders: The Lives and Times of a Refugee Football Club - by Chris Allen

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781838346805 | ISBN 10: 1838346805

    Football Without Borders is the story of one man's search for the soul of football.  Having become disillusioned with the corporatisation of top-level football in the early 1990s, Chris Allen embarks on a love affair with non-league football.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book While the Earth Sleeps We Travel: Stories, Poetry, and Art from Young Refugees Around the World by Ahmed M. Badr
    While the Earth Sleeps We Travel: Stories, Poetry, and Art from Young Refugees Around the World - by Ahmed M. Badr

    £14.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781449496425 | ISBN 10: 1449496423

    A groundbreaking collection of poetry, personal narratives, and art from refugee youth around the world. Foreword by actor and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Ben Stiller.   Beginning in 2018, Ahmed M. Badr - an Iraqi-American poet and former refugee - ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stories from a Migrant City: Living and Working Together in the Shadow of Brexit by Ben Rogaly
    Stories from a Migrant City: Living and Working Together in the Shadow of Brexit - by Ben Rogaly

    £19.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781526131737 | ISBN 10: 1526131730

    This book intervenes in the immigration debate, showing how moving away from a racialized local/migrant dichotomy can help to unite people on the basis of their common humanity.  Drawing on over one hundred stories and eight years of research in a p ... more

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  • Cover image of book African Exodus: Mass Migration and the Future of Europe by Asfa-Wossen Asserate
    African Exodus: Mass Migration and the Future of Europe - by Asfa-Wossen Asserate

    £14.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781910376904 | ISBN 10: 1910376906

    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 had arrived in the EU, the vast majority across the Mediterranean. Since then, despite measures to hos ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli
    Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions - by Valeria Luiselli

    £6.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780008271923 | ISBN 10: 0008271925

    A moving, eye-opening polemic about the US-Mexico border and what happens to the tens of thousands of unaccompanied Mexican and Central American children arriving in the US without papers.  'We are driving across Oklahoma in early June when we ... more

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  • Cover image of book Upheaval: The Refugee Trek Through Europe by Navid Kermani
    Upheaval: The Refugee Trek Through Europe - by Navid Kermani

    £12.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781509518685 | ISBN 10: 1509518681

    By foot, in buses, prison vans and trains, a steady stream of refugees traveled from the Greek island of Lesbos into Europe. In the autumn of 2015, award-winning writer Navid Kermani decided to accompany them on the "Balkan route."  In this perc ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Guide to the Immigration Act 2016 by Alison Harvey and Zoe Harper
    A Guide to the Immigration Act 2016 - by Alison Harvey and Zoe Harper

    £50.00   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784519285 | ISBN 10: 1784519286

    A Guide to the Immigration Act 2016 is produced in association with ILPA and provides a clear and straightforward explanation to the provisions of this legislation, with relevant commentary following each section of the Act. Those litigating will be ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea by Melissa Fleming
    A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea - by Melissa Fleming

    £16.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781408708439 | ISBN 10: 1408708434

    This is the story of Doaa, an ordinary girl from a village in Syria, who in 2015 became one of five hundred people crammed on to a fishing boat setting sail for Europe. The boat was deliberately capsized, and of those five hundred people, eleven surv ... more

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  • Cover image of book Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move by Reece Jones
    Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move - by Reece Jones

    £16.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784784713 | ISBN 10: 1784784710

    A major new exploration of the refugee crisis, focusing on how borders are formed and policed.  Forty thousand people died trying to cross international borders in the past decade, with the high-profile deaths along the shores of Europe only ac ... more

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  • Cover image of book Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy by Grace Chang
    Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy - by Grace Chang

    £13.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781608465286 | ISBN 10: 1608465284

    Illegal. Un-American. Disposable. In a nation with an unprecedented history of immigration, the prevailing image of those who cross our borders in search of equal opportunity is that of a drain.   Grace Chang's vital account of immigrant women ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
    The Woman Warrior - by Maxine Hong Kingston

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781447275220 | ISBN 10: 1447275225

    With an introduction by Xiaolu Guo   A classic memoir set during the Chinese revolution of the 1940s and inspired by folklore, providing a unique insight into the life of an immigrant in America.   When we Chinese girls listened to the ... more

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  • Cover image of book The New Odyssey: The Story of Europe by Patrick Kingsley
    The New Odyssey: The Story of Europe - by Patrick Kingsley

    £14.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781783351053 | ISBN 10: 1783351055

    The New Odyssey is a work of original, bold reporting written with a perfect mix of compassion and authority by the journalist who knows the subject better than any other.   Europe is facing a wave of migration unmatched since the end of World War ... more

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  • Cover image of book Crossing the Sea: With Syrians on the Exodus to Europe by Wolfgang Bauer
    Crossing the Sea: With Syrians on the Exodus to Europe - by Wolfgang Bauer

    £15.00   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781908276827 | ISBN 10: 1908276827

    Award-winning journalist Wolfgang Bauer and photographer Stanislav Krupař were the first undercover reporters to document the journey of Syrian refugees from Egypt to Europe. Posing as English teachers in 2014, they were direct witnesses to the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Immigrants Against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America by Kenyon Zimmer
    Immigrants Against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America - by Kenyon Zimmer

    £21.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780252080920 | ISBN 10: 0252080920

    The worlds that anarchists left behind, the worlds in which they lived, and the worlds they strove to create.  From the 1880s through the 1940s, tens of thousands of first- and second-generation immigrants embraced the anarchist cause after arrivi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fortress Europe: Inside the War Against Immigration by Matthew Carr
    Fortress Europe: Inside the War Against Immigration - by Matthew Carr

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781849046275 | ISBN 10: 1849046271

    When the Berlin Wall crumbled in 1989, a euphoric continent hailed the advent of a new ‘borderless’ Europe in which such barriers would become obsolete. More than twenty-five years later, in the midst of the continent’s worst refugee crisis since Wor ... more

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  • Cover image of book Traces of Survival: Drawings of Refugees in Iraq - Selected by Ai Weiwei by Tamara Chalabi and Philippe Van Cauteren (Editors)
    Traces of Survival: Drawings of Refugees in Iraq - Selected by Ai Weiwei - by Tamara Chalabi and Philippe Van Cauteren (Editors)

    £17.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780300218206 | ISBN 10: 0300218206

    This compelling book is the result of a project intended to visually communicate the hardships endured by Iraqi communities. Utilizing art materials donated to camps by the Ruya Foundation for Contemporary Culture in Iraq, these 350 drawings were cre ... more

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  • Cover image of book Loathe Thy Neighbour by James O
    Loathe Thy Neighbour - by James O'Brien

    £8.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781783960866 | ISBN 10: 1783960868

    Immigration is the thorny question that just won’t go away. It feeds a whole industry of commentators, pundits and politicians who take great delight in whipping us all into a frenzy, speaking for the ‘ordinary people’. But, when ugly prejudices are ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail by Óscar Martínez
    The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail - by Óscar Martínez

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781781682975 | ISBN 10: 1781682976

    NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Economist & The Financial Times  One day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. A local priest got 120 released, many ... more

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  • Cover image of book Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work by Edwidge Danticat
    Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work - by Edwidge Danticat

    £14.99   hardback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780691140186 | ISBN 10: 0691140189

    "Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. This is what I've always thought it meant to be a writer. Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry by Laura Maria Agustin
    Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry - by Laura Maria Agustin

    £19.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781842778609 | ISBN 10: 1842778609

    This groundbreaking book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work, that migrants who sell sex are passive victims and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest. Laura A ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Arrival by Shaun Tan
    The Arrival - by Shaun Tan

    £22.99   hardback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780340969939 | ISBN 10: 0340969938

    What drives so many to leave everything behind and journey alone to a mysterious country, a place without family or friends, where everything is nameless and the future is unknown?  This silent graphic novel is the story of every migrant, every refug ... more

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  • Cover image of book Deportation Is Freedom! The Orwellian World of Immigration Controls by Steve Cohen
    Deportation Is Freedom! The Orwellian World of Immigration Controls - by Steve Cohen

    £18.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781843102946 | ISBN 10: 1843102943

    A searing critique which exposes striking analogies between immigration systems and controls and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, the classic oppressive vision of totalitarianism, nationalism and terror.  Steve Cohen takes a fresh look at the ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Silver Throat of the Moon: Writing in Exile by Jennifer Langer
    The Silver Throat of the Moon: Writing in Exile - by Jennifer Langer

    £9.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780907123651 | ISBN 10: 0907123651

    Refugees and asylum seekers are rarely out of the headlines, or political debate, but only rarely do people in exile have the opportunity to speak for themselves.  The Silver Throat of the Moon includes prose and poetry from writers originating ... more

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