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A Hope More Powerful than the Sea
This is the story of Doaa, an ordinary girl from a village in Syria, who in 2015 became one of five hundred people crammed on to a fishing boat setting...
Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War
A vivid history of how Cold War politics helped solve one of the twentieth century's biggest refugee crises. When World War II ended, about one million people whom the Soviet...
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...
From White Australia to Woomera: The Story of Australian Immigration
There has never been a greater need for a sober, historically informed yet critical account of immigration policy in Australia. In this revised and updated edition, James Jupp, Australia's leading...
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...
Migrants
Migrants provides an easy-to-understand explanation for children of what migration is, its causes and consequences. Topics Covered Include: . Humanity was nomadic for 99% of its existence . Sedentary life...
Immigration
This book is intended for undergraduate students of immigration, Australian History, sociology and political science.
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...
The New Odyssey: The Story of Europe's Refugee Crisis
Europe is facing a wave of migration unmatched since the end of World War II - and no one has reported on this crisis in more depth or breadth than...
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...
A Country Too Far
'A fine book like A Country Too Far, one that inspires both compassion and anger, can change the way people think and act, and encourage them to expect more from...
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...
Failure and Hope: Fighting for the Rights of the Forcibly Displaced
In 2015, sixty million people were displaced by violent conflict globally - the highest since World War II. National and international policy prevents the displaced from working or moving freely...
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...
Migrations: Open Hearts, Open Borders
From all over the world, picture book illustrators sent original images and personal messages, in postcard form, for Migrations , an exhibition at the Biennial of Illustration, Bratislava, in 2017,...
Conversations from Calais: Sharing Refugee Stories
'A beautiful, deeply affecting and powerful marriage between art and activism' - KHALED HOSSEINI, bestselling author of The Kite Runner 'These are vital conversations. Everyone should eavesdrop on them'- KAMILA...
But You Don't Look Arab: And Other Tales of Unbelonging
Emmy Award-winning international journalist Hala Gorani weaves stories from her time as a globe-trotting anchor and correspondent with her own lifelong search for identity as the daughter of Syrian immigrants....
Homelands: A Personal History of Europe
Drawing on fifty years of interviews and experience, Homelands tells the epic story of how Europe in the early twenty first century, having emerged from its wartime hell, recovered and...
An Ocean Apart: Historical Fiction Inspired by Real Life Stories of the Windrush Generation
Inspired by real life stories of the Windrush Generation and her mother's own experiences as a nurse coming to Britain from the Caribbean, Sarah Lee's debut novel An Ocean Apart...
Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval
An urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change- how it will force us to change where - and how - we live We are facing a...
Australia's Second Chance: What our history tells us about our future
How Australia was already made great again, and how we can remain so in the Time of Trump. Most nations don't get a first chance to prosper. Australia is on...
Conversations from Calais: Sharing Refugee Stories
'A beautiful, deeply affecting and powerful marriage between art and activism' - KHALED HOSSEINI, bestselling author of The Kite Runner 'These are vital conversations. Everyone should eavesdrop on them'- KAMILA...
The Compatriots: The Russian Exiles Who Fought Against the Kremlin
From the time of the tsars to the waning days of Communist regime, Russian leaders tried to control the flow of ideas by controlling its citizens' movements. They believed strict...
Brown Baby: A Memoir of Race, Family and Home
'Brown Baby is a beautifully intimate and soul-searching memoir. It speaks to the heart and the mind and bears witness to our turbulent times.' - Bernardine Evaristo, author of Girl,...
My Boy Will Die of Sorrow: A Memoir of Immigration from the Front Lines
$15.00 AUD
INTERNATIONAL LATINO BOOK AWARD WINNER - The Raul Yzaguirre Best Political/Current Affairs Book This deeply personal perspective from a human rights lawyer--whose work on the front lines of the fight...
Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle
The Sunday Times no.1 bestseller on the incredible true story of WW2's most infamous Nazi prison, and the colourful characters behind its walls Colditz Castle- a forbidding Gothic tower on...
The Unsettling of Europe: The Great Migration, 1945 to the Present
The extraordinary story of modern Europe on the move. A striking characteristic of modern Europe has been the extreme fluidity of its populations. Whether through war, state policy or a...
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
A collection of the finest essays by the 'Best of the Booker' winner, following on from his much-acclaimed STEP ACROSS THIS LINE From 'Best of the Booker' winner Salman Rushdie,...
How Migration Really Works: 22 things you need to know about the most
Authoritative and myth-busting, this is the one book you need to read to understand why we've been wrong about migration Global migration is not at an all-time high. The climate...
The Unsettling of Europe: The Great Migration, 1945 to the Present
'Peter Gatrell has produced a tour de force ... This important and timely work on one of the most challenging issues in modern Europe deserves to be widely read' Ian...
The Forgotten Children: Fairbridge Farm School and its Betrayal of
B-format of one of 2007's Australian non-fiction bestsellers. In 1959 David Hill's mother - a poor single parent living in England - reluctantly decided to send her sons to Fairbridge...
The Long Walk with Little Amal: The Official Companion book to 'The
From July to November 2021, Little Amal, a 3.5m-high puppet created by Handspring Puppet Company ('War Horse') will walk 8,000km from the Syria-Turkey border along the established refugee route through...
Migrants: The Story of Us All
We are all descended from migrants. Humans are, in in fundamental ways, a migratory species, more so than any other land mammal. Migration is one of the most toxically controversial...
Beyond Hope: From an Auckland prison to changing lives in Afghanistan
A powerful story of how one man didn't let other people define him 'Bariz gifts us his truth-telling, delivered with unwavering optimism.' Matt Brown, author of She Is Not Your...
Beyond Hope: From an Auckland prison to changing lives in Afghanistan
A powerful story of how one man didn't let other people define him 'Bariz gifts us his truth-telling, delivered with unwavering optimism.' Matt Brown, author of She Is Not Your...
Out of Albania: From Crisis Migration to Social Inclusion in Italy
Analysing the dynamics of the post-1990 Albanian migration to Italy, this book is the first major study of one of Europe's newest, most dramatic yet least understood migrations. It takes...