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1	Infidel more books like this by Ayaan Hirsi Ali add to wishlist In this profoundly affecting memoir from the internationally renowned author of "The Caged Virgin," Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells her life story, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia to her intellectual awakening in the Netherlands to her life under armed guard in the West. see all copies from $2.07! new only from $7.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge more books like this by Chanrithy Him add to wishlist In this memoir of life under the Khmer Rouge, a Cambodian who was a child at the time recalls the terror and loss endured by her family and the devastating cost to Cambodian society under the Pol Pot regime. She also recalls the bonds formed among families and strangers and acts of kindness in a time of devastation. see all copies from $4.99! new only from $9.97! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Do They Hear You When You Cry more books like this by Fauziya Kassindja, Layli Miller Bashir add to wishlist The true story of a West African woman who fled her native Togo to avoid ritual female circumcision and who eventually made it to the United States with a fake passport. Detained, she was incarcerated in a series of INS facilities in New Jersey, where she endured two years of terrible living conditions and abuse before being granted asylum on ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.80! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Minaret more books like this by Leila Aboulela add to wishlist Najwa never imagined that one day she would be a maid. Exiled to London and soon thereafter orphaned, the upperclass Sudanese refugee falls in love with her employer's brother--a love that should not be. This novel is an illuminating glimpse into a culture few westerners understand. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.98! \| first editions
5	Far Country more books like this by Nevil Shute add to wishlist A young English woman leaves her aging parents to visit friends living in the Australian outback. She falls in love, both with the country and with Carl, a doctor and Czech refugee. Brought together through dramatic encounters and strange twists of fate, their relationship hangs in the balance when Jennifer is called back to England. see all copies from $2.00! new only from $11.06! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	To Destroy You is No Loss: The Odyssey of a Cambodian Family more books like this by Joan D. Criddle add to wishlist To Destroy You Is No Loss is the story of the harrowing ordeal that followed the forced evacuation of Phnom Penh in 1975, of the loyalty and love that sustained Teeda Butt Mam and her family through four years of forced labor and their triumphant, incredibly daring escape. 8 pages of black-and-white photographs. see all copies from $13.00! new only from $60.11! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Healing Invisible Wounds: Paths to Hope and Recovery in a Violent World more books like this by Dr. Richard F Mollica add to wishlist In these personal reflections on his thirty years of clinical work with victims of genocide, torture, and abuse in the United States, Cambodia, Bosnia, and other parts of the world, Richard Mollica describes the surprising capacity of traumatized people to heal themselves. Here is how Neil Boothby, Director of the Program on Forced Migration and ... see all copies from $5.75! new only from $12.76! \| first editions \| SVS
8	A State of Blood more books like this by Henry Kyemba add to wishlist see all copies from $10.75! first editions \| SVS
9	Sheltered by the King more books like this by Marta Gabre-Tsadick add to wishlist see all copies from $16.21! signed copies
10	Ariel more books like this by Grace Tiffany add to wishlist Ariel is beautiful and magical, a creator of dreams and of mischief. Sprung from the mind of a dazed sailor shipwrecked in the Bermuda Triangle, she rules half of her enchanted isle, dreaming of the savior from the east who will help her conquer all. When Prospero, a lost mariner, appears on the beach, his young daughter, Miranda, in tow, Ariel ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.46! \| first editions
11	New School: A History of the New School for Social Research more books like this by Peter M Rutkoff (Introduction by), William B Scott (Introduction by) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.72! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12	The Refugee in International Law more books like this by Guy S Goodwin-Gill add to wishlist Millions of people today are forced to flee their homes as a result of conflict, systemic discrimination, persecution, and other violations of their human rights. The core instruments on which they must rely to secure international protection are the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol, now complemented by ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $72.48! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Beyond the Killing Fields: Voices of Nine Cambodian Survivors in America more books like this by Usha Welaratna add to wishlist In 1975, after years of civil war, Cambodians welcomed the Khmer Rouge. Once in power, the regime closed Cambodia to the outside world. Four years later, when the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia and defeated the Khmer Rouge, the world learned the Khmer Rouge had turned the country into 'killing fields'. After the Vietnamese takeover, thousands of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.74! \| first editions
14 view cover	Tanner's Twelve Swingers more books like this by Lawrence Block add to wishlist Out of print for 15 years, Block's third book in his hilarious Tanner series is back. And this time the intrepid spy is up to his neck in a dozen leggy beauties and a life-and-death struggling assignment out of the cold corners of Russia. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.78! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15	Beyond Death & Exile: The Spanish Republicans in France, 1939-1955 more books like this by Louis Stein add to wishlist see all copies from $6.42! first editions
16 view cover	A Guatemalan Family more books like this by Michael Malone (Photographer) add to wishlist The story of the Mendez family, who fled war-torn Guatemala for the United States and eventually settled in Florida. Concentrating on the life of 10-year-old Karin, this book explores her life at school, home, and among friends. Illustrated with color and b&w photographs. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.00!
17	To Destroy You Is No Loss more books like this by Joan D Criddle, Teeda Butt Mam add to wishlist Teeda Butt Mam tells the story of the four years of forced labor she and her family spent when driven from Phnom Penh by the Khmer Rouge. Covered is her daring escape that carried the family out of the Cambodian holocaust to a refugee camp in Thailand and finally to America. 8-page photo insert. see all copies from $6.77! signed copies
18 view cover	Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology Among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania more books like this by Liisa H Malkki add to wishlist This study of Hutu refugees from Burundi, driven into exile in Tanzania after their 1972 insurrection against the dominant Tutsi was brutally quashed, shows how experiences of dispossession and violence are remembered and turned into narratives, and how this process helps to construct identities such as "Hutu" and "Tutsi." Through extensive ... see all copies from $12.49! new only from $25.93! \| SVS
19	The Vietnamese Gulag more books like this by Van Toai Doan, David Chanoff, Doan Van Toai add to wishlist see all copies from $2.24! new only from $3.88! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Songs of the Caged, Songs of the Free: Music and the Vietnamese Refugee Experience more books like this by Adelaida Reyes add to wishlist The Vietnamese refugee experience calls attention to issues commonly raised by migration: the redefinition of group relations, the reformulation of identity, and the reconstruction of social and musical life in resettlement. Fifteen years ago, Adelaida Reyes began doing fieldwork on the musical activities of Vietnamese refugees. She entered the ... see all copies from $19.95! new only from $19.95! \| SVS
21	Exiles + Emigres: The Flight of European Artists from Hitler more books like this by Stephanie Barron add to wishlist see all copies from $19.49! new only from $29.49! \| first editions
22 view cover	Appassionata more books like this by Eva Hoffman add to wishlist In this story of contemporary love and conflict, Hoffman illuminates the currents and undercurrents of modern times, as she explores the luminous and dark faces of romanticism. see all copies from $7.75! new only from $14.15! \| SVS
23 view cover	Seeking Refuge: Central American Migration to Mexico, the United States, and Canada more books like this by Maria Cristina Garcia add to wishlist The political upheaval in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala had a devastating human toll at the end of the twentieth century. A quarter of a million people died during the period 1974-1996. Many of those who survived the wars chose temporary refuge in neighboring countries such as Honduras and Costa Rica. Others traveled far north, to Mexico, ... see all copies from $13.10! new only from $26.34! \| SVS
24 view cover	The Doorman more books like this by Reinaldo Arenas add to wishlist Arenas's first work set in the United States breaks new ground with the story of a young Cuban refugee who becomes a doorman at a luxury apartment building. Oddly alienated from the tenants, he is seduced by their pets, who are determined to revolt against humans and human society. see all copies from $2.04! new only from $99.60! \| first editions
25	Cambodian Witness: An Autobiography of Someth May more books like this by Someth, Someth May add to wishlist see all copies from $9.49! new only from $58.00! \| first editions

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