Millions of people worldwide are or have been refugees, forced to leave their homes due to persecution and violence due to their race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group. We've gathered some library resources available to help you explore various facets of these complex and significant issues. The list is only a sample of what is available. Please search the library's catalog or chat with a librarian to find additional resources.
Framing Muslims: Stereotyping and Representation After 9/11 by 
Border Wars: Inside Trump's Assault on Immigration by 
The Criminalization of Immigration: The Post 9/11 Moral Panic by 
Baby Jails: The Fight to End the Incarceration of Refugee Children in America by The Gustavus Library is committed to fostering an inclusive and welcoming environment for all our patrons. We acknowledge that harmful and outdated language or terminology exists in catalog records for our materials, though, and we would welcome your help in identifying such instances.
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When Stars Are Scattered by 
Belonging and Becoming in a Multicultural World: Refugee Youth and the Pursuit of Identity by 
Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees by 
Flight to Freedom: The Story of Central American Refugees in California by 
The Middle of Everywhere: The World's Refugees Come to Our Town by 
Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience by 
Somewhere in the Unknown World: A Collective Refugee Memoir by 
Refugee Routes: Telling, Looking, Protesting, Redressing by 
Europe and the Refugee Response by 
Refugee Spaces and Urban Citizenship in Nairobi: Africa's Sanctuary City by 
Refugee Rights: Ethics, Advocacy, and Africa by 
Rightlessness in an Age of Rights: Hannah Arendt and the Contemporary Struggles of Migrants by 
The SAGE Handbook of Media and Migration by 
Mobility and Forced Displacement in the Middle East by 
Challenge of the Threshold: Border Closures and Migration Movements in Africa by This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
