These books are for reluctant readers, or for readers with younger reading ages than their actual age, because lots of young people can find reading challenging, or are catching up because they have come here as refugees, so the reading age is around nine or 10 but the interest age is old...
“There are memories for which we can live more than a life time.”—Brother of Rana Abdulfattah Photographs over the past several years have shown migrants and refugees crossing the Mediterranean Sea, some of them dying as they flee war, poverty, drought, and authoritarian regimes. The headli...
withAmnesty International Irelandand thePortuguese Refugee Council, design and facilitation of an online Best Practice Convening session of around 50 key actors in Community Sponsorship of Refugees across Europe with theRoyal Societyon behalf ofOrla Cronin Research, technical support for facilitation of on...
It has been chosen by nine of the world's leading universities and USA universities, as well as the Library of Congress of all Arabic and Syrian books as a reference for research and studies About international intelligence services, the Middle East and About Syria, and other topics and addres...
I haven’t been able to get into much recent sci-fi, but I enjoyed this tale of the travails of climate-change refugees in a Chinese Mars colony: compelling and filled with intriguing political and geopolitical speculation. Vajra Chandrasekera, The Saint of Bright Doors. Contemporary fantasy ...
Continue reading “International Migrants Day” → Posted on December 18, 2017 by Berghahn Journals Promoting ‘self-reliance’ for refugees: what does it really mean? The following is a post by Naohiko Omata, author of The Myth of Self-Reliance: Economic Lives Inside a Liberian Refugee Camp....
a flight attendant escaping a cult, an Afghan refugee seeking asylum, a young Australian father in a dead-end job and a stressed bureaucrat caught up in a national scandal. Difficult to watch at times, it addresses many international issues including humane treatment of refugees and mental illnes...
for resettlement when their “real lives” will finally start. There’s a word the residents of Dadaab invented for that longing for resettlement:buufis.City of Thornsis a heartbreaking glimpse into the hopes, dreams, and aspirations of the refugees that the world has forgotten about. ...
Vietnamese women, war stories, refugees, immigrants.Stories of Vietnamese women at home and abroad. A memorable collection of stories from eighteen Vietnamese women, interviewed by the author, who lived through the Vietnam War...more... The...
We have colleagues who build small libraries in war-torn cities, who take books via camels to children in remote desert towns, who help refugees with books and art supplies in the most desperate circumstances. Our own USBBY is actively involved in the REFORMA Children in Crisis ...