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Migrant and Refugee stories

It seems that you can't read the news today without hearing about the struggles of refugees, whether it's the the boats attempting to cross the English channel, or escape across the Mediterranean, pictures of the planes leaving Afghanistan, or the families leaving Mexico trying to make a better life for themselves in the USA. The stories in this list give a human face to this tragedy, and grapple with the dislocation and the desperation suffered by people trying to escape danger and find a safe home for their family.

What Strange Paradise

Omar El Akkad

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Harbor

Lorraine Adams

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What Is the What

Dave Eggers

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These are the names

Tommy Wieringa

Tommy Wieringa traces two stories doomed to collide. In one, he follows a group of starving, near-feral Eurasian refugees on a harrowing quest for survival; in the other, he follows Pontus Beg, a policeman from a small border town on the steppe, as he investigates the death of a rabbi, one of the town's two remaining Jews.

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gareth added this book to Migrant and Refugee stories, over 2 years ago
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Exit West

Mohsin Hamid

"In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet-- sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, and are soon cloistered in a premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it explodes, turning familiar streets into a patchwork of checkpoints and bomb blasts, they begin to hear whispers about doors-- doors that can whisk people far away, if perilously and for a price. As the violence escalates, Nadia and Saeed decide that they no longer have a choice. Leaving their homeland and their old lives behind, they find a door and step through. [This book] follows the couple as they emerge into an alien and uncertain future, struggling to hold on to each other, to their past, to the very sense of who they are."--From regular print book.