World Refugee Day

 

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Additional Resources

• Scholarly Articles

  • Ormsby, Eric A. "The Refugee Crisis as Civil Liberties Crisis." Columbia Law Review117, no. 5 (2017): 1191-229.

  • Lippert, Randy. "Governing Refugees: The Relevance of Governmentality to Understanding the International Refugee Regime." Alternatives: Global, Local, Political24, no. 3 (1999): 295-328.

  • Morland, Lyn, and Tarima Levine. "Preschool: Collaborating with Refugee Resettlement Organizations: Providing a Head Start to Young Refugees." YC Young Children71, no. 4 (2016): 69-75.

  • Hodson, Margaret. "“Modern Day Trojan Horse?” Analyzing the Nexus between Islamophobia and Anti-Refugee Sentiment in the United States." Islamophobia Studies Journal5, no. 2 (2020): 267-82. 

  • Green, Shannon N., Julie N. Snyder, and Kimberly Flowers. Stuck in Limbo: Refugees, Migrants, and the Food Insecure in Djibouti. Report. Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), 2017. 10-18.

  • Baak, Melanie. "Once A Refugee, Always A Refugee?: The Haunting of the Refugee Label in Resettlement." In Refugee Journeys: Histories of Resettlement, Representation and Resistance, edited by Silverstein Jordana and Stevens Rachel, 51-70. Australia: ANU Press, 2021.

  • Khor, Swee Kheng, and David L. Heymann. Report. Council on Foreign Relations, 2020.

  • Brown, Alison, Peter Mackie, Kate Dickenson, and Tegegne Gebre-Egziabher. Urban Refugee Economies: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Report. International Institute for Environment and Development, 2018. 27-41.

  • Holzer, Elizabeth, and Kamryn Warren. "Humanitarian Spectacles from Below: A Study of Social Connections in Unsettled Contexts." Ethnography16, no. 4 (2015): 482-502.

  • Costello, Cathryn, Caroline Nalule, and Derya Ozkul. 2020. “Recognising refugees: Understanding the real routes to recognition.” Forced Migration Review vol. 65. Available at: https://www.fmreview.org/recognising-refugees/costello-nalule-ozkul.

  • Higgins, Claire. 2021. “With billions more allocated to immigrant detention, it’s another bleak year for refugees.” The Conversation, May 13, 2021. Available at: https://theconversation.com/with-billions-more-allocated-to-immigration-detention-its-another-bleak-year-for-refugees-160783.

  • Nawyn, Stephanie J. 2019. “Lower refugee limits are weakening resettlement in the US”. The Conversation, October 17, 2019. Available at: https://theconversation.com/lower-refugee-limits-are-weakening-resettlement-in-the-us-124970.

  • Refugees International, 2021. “Undermining Protection in the EU: What Nine Trends Tell Us About the Proposed Pact on Migration and Asylum.” Available at: https://www.refugeesinternational.org/reports/2021/6/1/undermining-protection-in-the-eu-what-nine-trends-tells-us-about-the-proposed-pact-on-migration-and-asylum.

• Books (Fiction/Autobiography)

  • The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bearsby Dinaw Mengestu (2007)

  • Before Night Fallsby Reinaldo Arenas (2000)

  • Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian, My Story of Rescue, Hope, and Triumph by Yusra Mardini (2018)

  • First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembersby Loug Ung (2000)

  • The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes Afterby Clemantine Wamariya & Elizabeth Weil (2018)

  • Goodbye Sarajevo: A True Story of Courage, Love and Survivalby Atka Reid & Hana Schofield (2012)

  • Half of a Yellow Sunby Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013)

  • The House of the Mosqueby Kader Abdolah (2011)

  • The House of the Spiritsby Isabel Allende (1982)

  • The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoirby Kao Kalia Yang (2008)

  • The Lightless Sky: A Twelve-Year-Old's Refugee Harrowing Escape From Afghanistan and His Extraordinary Journey Across Half the Worldby Gulwali Passarlay (2017)

  • A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldierby Ishmael Beah (2007)

  • Mapsby Nuruddin Farah (1986)

  • Music of Ghostsby Vaddey Ratner (2017)

  • The Pianist from Syria: A Memoirby Aeham Ahmad (2019)

  • The Refugeesby Viet Thanh Nguyen (2017)

  • Sea Prayerby Khaled Hosseini (2018)

• Young Readers (Fiction/Autobiography)

  • A King in Hiding: How a Child Refugee Became a World Chess Champion by Fahim Mohammad. Publisher: Icon Books. Year of Publication (in UK): 2015. Age Range: 12+.

  • What You Wish For, Short Stories And Poems For Ages 12+ by a variety of celebrated authors. Publisher: Penguin. Age: 12+.

  • The Red Pencil by Andrea Davis Pinkney. Publisher: Little, Brown and Company. Year of Publication: 2014. Age Range: 9+.

  • A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Child Soldier by Ismael Beah. Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Age: 14+.

  • Children of War: Voices of Iraqi Refugees by Deborah Ellis. Publisher: Groundwood Books. Age: 12+.

  • Under the Persimmon Tree by Suzanne Fisher-Staples. Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Age: 12+

  • The Go-Away Bird by Warren Fitzgerald. Publisher: HarperCollins UK. Age: 12+

  • The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Publisher: Bloomsbury. Age: 14+

  • Just the Facts: Refugees by Steve Maddocks. Publisher: Heinemann Library. Age: 13+.

  • The Other Side of Truth by Beverley Naidoo. Publisher: Harper Collins/Puffin. Age: 12+.

  • Chasing Hope: A Distance Running Novel by Mark Donnelly. Publisher: Independently Published. Age: 12+

  • Where the Streets Had a Name by Randa Abdel-Fattah Publisher: Scholastic Press Age: 11+.

  • Christophe`s Story by Nicki Cornwell. Publisher: Frances Lincoln. Age: 10-12.

• Reports

  • Amnesty International. 2020. “The world’s refugees in numbers.” Available at: https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/refugees-asylum-seekers-and-migrants/global-refugee-crisis-statistics-and-facts/.

  • US News and World Report. 2020. “10 countries that accept the most refugees.” Available at: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/slideshows/10-countries-that-accept-the-most-refugees.

  • Toolkits UNHCR World Refugee Day toolkit: https://www.unhcr.org/609553414/world-refugee-day-2021-toolkit-pdf

  • UNHCR Teaching about Refugees: https://www.unhcr.org/en-us/teaching-about-refugees.html

  • World Health Organization. Report. World Health Organization, 2020.

• Ways to Get Involved

  • Refugee Council USA: https://rcusa.org/get-involved/

  • Project Welcome: https://publish.illinois.edu/projectwelcome/world-refugee-day/world-refugee-day-2021/

  • Refugee Development Center, Lansing MI: https://refugeedevelopmentcenter.org/

  • Refugee Services, St. Vincent Catholic Charities: https://stvcc.org/services/refugee-services/

• Faith-based Resources

  There is a long history of faith-based organizations serving and advocating for refugees around the world and especially in the United States. Here are just a few World Refugee Day resources from faith communities.

  • World Relief: https://worldrelief.org/blog-so-you-want-to-know-more-about-refugees-here-are-some-resources-that-can-help/

  • Episcopal Migration Ministries: https://episcopalmigrationministries.org/worldrefugeeday/

  • Church World Service: https://cwsglobal.org/learn/refugees-and-immigrants/

  • HIAS: https://www.hias.org/events/world-refugee-day-celebrating-refugees-impacts-our-communities