Five Books to Understand Displacement
Glocal.name Editorial · · 5 min read
Start with people, then systems
Statistics explain scale; memoirs explain what the scale costs. These titles do both.
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.
Books on this topic
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The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Christy Lefteri
A novel drawn from the author's work at a refugee centre in Athens.
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City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp
Ben Rawlence
Years of reporting from Dadaab, told through nine residents.
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