SUGGESTED READING
Suggested Bibliography
- City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World’s Largest Refugee Camp
- Six Books to Make Your World Refugee Day More Meaningful: Suggestions from HIAS
- Behold The Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
- Seeking Refuge: On the Shores of the Global Refugee Crisis
- The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives, essays edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Toxic Charity and Charity Detox by Robert D. Lupton
Articles to Read
- Washington Post Op-ed: “Cutting Refugee Admissions Hurts Americans. Here’s How”
- New York Times: “A Surprising Salve for New York’s Beleaguered Cities: Refugees”
- Journal on Migration and Human Security: “You are Not Welcome Here Anymore: Restoring Support for Refugee Resettlement in the Age of Trump”
- Medium: “Advocating for refugees in the age of hate speech: Can human stories cut through the corrosive rhetoric—and help build a global community of welcomers?”
- Undark.org: “Far From Being a Burden, Research Suggests Refugees Come With Benefits”
- Cato.org: “Little National Security Benefit to Trump’s Executive Order on Immigration”
- 2,000 faith leaders sign on in support of refugee resettlement
- PBS Newshour: “National security experts support settling Syrian refugees in the U.S.”
- NY Times: Rejected Report Shows Revenue Brought in By Refugees
- Time: Hate, Hope and Swimming Lessons: An American Summer With the First Syrians in Iowa
- Queen Rania opinion: Why global leadership on refugees matters
- KQED: Just Like My Mother: How We Inherit Our Parents’ Traits and Tragedies
- Washington Post Op-ed: ‘On refugees, the Trump administration is competent and malevolent’ by David Miliband
- The Economist: ‘America is on track to admit the fewest refugees in four decades’
Multimedia
- IRC Rescue Facts: Why Dems and the GOP agreed on refugees—until now
- “In the Thick” Podcast – current events from a POC perspective
- “Displaced”: Podcast from the IRC
- News Deeply: Refugee Voices
- Crossing the Line: Asylum at the Border
- The Waiting Game: The U.S. is supposed to be a safe haven for people fleeing persecution. But asylum-seekers face years of uncertainty when they arrive.