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Seeking Asylum: Our Stories
$20.00 AUD
The voices Australia should hear 100% of the proceeds from this title will go to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre This beautifully illustrated hardback captures the stories of those who...
Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline
A radical, provocative argument that the global population will soon begin to decline, dramatically reshaping the social, political and economic landscape. For half a century, statisticians, pundits and politicians have...
The Unwanted Dead: 'Historical crime at its finest' Vaseem Khan
'A gripping murder mystery and a vivid recreation of Paris under German Occupation.' ANDREW TAYLOR 'Terrific' SUNDAY TIMES , Best Books of the Month 'A thoughtful, haunting thriller.' MICK HERRON...
Still Waters in a Storm: The One-Room School Where Everyone Listens to
Previously published as Kid Quixotes , the unlikely, inspiring true story of a one-room school where children of undocumented immigrants and their teacher unlock the revolutionary power of listening. "Haff...
This Land of Promise: A History of Refugees and Exiles in Britain
'Important, comprehensive, and superbly researched. All the more urgent at the present time' BART VAN ES 'A terrific, clear-eyed and balanced history that cuts through today's toxic debates' DAILY TELEGRAPH...
The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
In January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping entry to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries and dramatically cutting the number of refugees allowed to resettle...
Refugee
$10.00 AUD
"A gripping, visceral, and hold-your-breath intense story of three young refugees." - John Green This action-packed novel tackles topics both timely and timeless: courage, survival, and the quest for home....
The Irish Diaspora
Irish emigration during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is a core issue in the history of Britain and the New World. This book brings together articles which provide an overview...
Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and
" "Wide-ranging yet consistently affecting, these pieces offer a crucial and inspired survey of the immigrant experience in America." " - Publishers Weekly "[These contributions] touch on so many different...
Refugees, Morality and Public Policy: The Jesuit Lenten Seminars 2002
Since 1999, the Jesuit Lenten Seminar series have drawn increasing audiences in venues around Australian. This book gathers the papers from the 2002 series- Australian's Refugee Policy: Facts, Needs and...
The Lovers
"She is his Juliet and he is her Romeo, and her family has threatened to kill them both..." This is the heartrending account of Zakia and Mohammad Ali, a couple...
New Beginnings: Issues and Needs in International Kinship Care
Children and young people, many from conflict-affected countries, who arrive in Australia on orphan relative visas are highly vulnerable. In this report professionals with experience of working in this field...
God's Zoo: Artists, Exiles, Londoners
$15.00 AUD
This beautifully illustrated book consists of a series of encounters with writers, artists, and musicians living in London, all of whom are exiles or emigres displaced from their cultural and...
The Cornish Overseas: The Epic Story of the "Great Migration"
The story of the migration of the Cornish people throughout the world is an epic. Philip Payton is one of the world's leading scholars of the movement of Cornish people...
Girt By Sea: Australia, Refugees And The Politics Of Fear: Quarterly
In the first Quarterly Essay of 2002 Mungo MacCallum provides a devastating account of the Howard government's treatment of the refugees as well as delineating the factors in Australian history...
Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in
A startling exploration of slavery in the Islamic world from the 7th century to the present Slavery in the Islamic world has a long, complex and controversial history. Captives and...
You Don't Know What War Is: The Diary of a Young Girl From Ukraine
***A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR*** *** Shortlisted for the Children's Book of the Year: Older Non Fiction The Week Junior Book Awards *** Featured on This Morning, Steph's...
This Happened to Me: A Reckoning
"Price not only rises above the hurt and hate, she uses her hard-won insights to shine a light for others." - Jeannette Walls, #1 New York Times bestselling author For...
The Passport in America: The History of a Document
In today's world of constant identification checks, it's difficult to recall that there was ever a time when "proof of identity" was not a part of everyday life. And as...
To Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism, and
Between 1870 and 1940, tens of thousands of Australian women were drawn to London, their imperial metropolis and the center of the publishing, art, musical, theatrical, and educational worlds. Even...
Memory and Migration: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Memory Studies
Memory plays an integral part in how individuals and societies construct their identity. While memory is usually considered in the context of a stable, unchanging environment, this collection of essays...
Unsettled: Cambodian Refugees in the New York City Hyperghetto
After surviving the Khmer Rouge genocide, followed by years of confinement to international refugee camps, as many as 10,000 Southeast Asian refugees arrived in the Bronx during the 1980s and...
Migrants to the Metropolis: The Rise of Immigrant Gateway Cities
Immigration today touches the lives and economies of more people and places than ever before. Yet the places that are disproportionately affected by immigrant flows are not countries but cities....
Cooper & Gorfer: Between These Folded Walls, Utopia
'What do you hold close? Where is your secret place of belonging? If you had to leave everything behind and begin again, who would you be?' In a series of...
London: Immigrant City
TRANSLATED BY ALISON McCULLOUGH 'One of the best books on the many diverse migrations to London . . . revealing the extent to which the diversity of immigrant origins has...
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
*A FINANCIAL TIMES , GUARDIAN AND TLS BOOK OF THE SUMMER* 'The fascinating story of ancient words ... new revelations await' The Guardian 'A magisterial feat' New Scientist ________________________________ One...
This Land of Promise: A History of Refugees and Exiles in Britain
'Important, comprehensive, and superbly researched. All the more urgent at the present time' BART VAN ES 'A terrific, clear-eyed and balanced history that cuts through today's toxic debates' DAILY TELEGRAPH...
This Land of Promise: A History of Refugees and Exiles in Britain
'Important, comprehensive, and superbly researched. All the more urgent at the present time' BART VAN ES 'A terrific, clear-eyed and balanced history that cuts through today's toxic debates' DAILY TELEGRAPH...
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
*A FINANCIAL TIMES , GUARDIAN AND TLS BOOK OF THE SUMMER* 'The fascinating story of ancient words ... new revelations await' The Guardian 'A magisterial feat' New Scientist ________________________________ One...
Through the Eyes of Children: Quotes from Childhood Interrupted by War
A heartrending and beautiful trilingual book that gives voice to the children of war-torn Ukraine, interspersed with moving works of art. What is it like to be a child living...
Voice for the Voiceless: Over Seven Decades of Struggle with China for
In this unique book, His Holiness the Dalai Lama tells the full story of his 75-year struggle with China to save Tibet and its people. Instant New York Times Bestseller...
Desire Paths
A story about family, connection and the distance we will go to be with the ones we love. In 2020, as the world is closing its borders, journalist Megan Clement...
Mercury Pictures Presents
Chosen as a BOOK OF THE YEAR in the Sunday Times , Stylist and Observer 'A multifaceted novel that is funny, verbally inventive and moving' Sunday Times, Book of the...
Ritual
Italian-born, Canadian-based documentary photographer Vincenzo Pietropaolo has made it his life's mission to photograph the immigrant experience, working class culture and social justice issues. Considered "one of Canada's pre-eminent documentary...
Mary Prince (reloaded look)
$10.00 AUD
My Story: Mary Prince - the thrilling story of the former slave and abolitionist. Born in enslavement in Bermuda, Mary Prince travelled to England, escaped slavery and became a prominent...
England: Poems from a School
Oxford Spires Academy is a small comprehensive school with 30 languages - and one special focus: poetry. In the last five years, its students have won every prize going. They...
London: Immigrant City
TRANSLATED BY ALISON McCULLOUGH 'One of the best books on the many diverse migrations to London . . . revealing the extent to which the diversity of immigrant origins has...
Human Rights Overboard: Seeking Asylum in Australia
In 2005, in the wake of the Cornelia Rau scandal, a citizen's inquiry was established to bear witness to events in Australian immigration-detention facilities. Until then, the federal government had...
I Must Belong Somewhere: An extraordinary family tale of survival
'An extraordinary family tale of survival' Sunday Times Jonathan Dean's great-grandfather, David Schapira, fled the Russian threat in Ukraine for Vienna in 1914. Blinded in the First World War, he...
X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos Who Helped Defeat the Nazis
This is popular WW2 history at its heart-stopping best, fuelled by an incredible, previously untold story of the Jewish refugees who fought in Britain's most secretive special-forces unit THE UNTOLD...
Strangers at Our Door
Refugees from the violence of wars and the brutality of famished lives have knocked on other people's doors since the beginning of time. For the people behind the doors, these...
Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American
Stubborn Twig is a classic American story, a story of immigrants making their way in a new land. It is a living work of social history that rings with the...
We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the
Nobel Peace Prize winner and bestselling author Malala Yousafzai introduces some of the faces behind the statistics and news stories we read or hear every day about the millions of...
Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and
" "Wide-ranging yet consistently affecting, these pieces offer a crucial and inspired survey of the immigrant experience in America." " - Publishers Weekly "[These contributions] touch on so many different...
Voice for the Voiceless: Over Seven Decades of Struggle with China for
In this unique book, His Holiness the Dalai Lama tells the full story of his 75-year struggle with China to save Tibet and its people. Instant New York Times Bestseller...