Five Books to Understand Displacement
Glocal.name Editorial · · 5 min read
Start with people, then systems
Official displacement statistics explain scale; memoirs illuminate individual experience behind those figures. [1]
Read one memoir and one policy book side by side. The gap between them is the work.
How we chose
We prioritised books written by or with displaced people, published within the last decade, and available in multiple languages. Publication details were checked against publisher catalogues. [2]
References
Books on this topic
Recommended reading
The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Christy Lefteri
A novel drawn from the author's work at a refugee centre in Athens.
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Recommended reading
City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp
Ben Rawlence
Years of reporting from Dadaab, told through the lives of nine residents.
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