Refugee Week 2024 — Finding Freedom: Family

In a world marked by displacement and the search for refuge, this year’s Refugee Week theme 'Finding Freedom' – with a focus on family – encapsulates the profound journey of resilience, strength, and unity that defines the refugee experience. This Refugee Week (16-22 June), we aim to shed light on the transformative power of familial bonds as well as chosen bonds in the face of adversity and emphasise the crucial role families play in providing solace, support, and a sense of belonging to those forced to flee their homelands.

Updated May 20, 2024
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The ungrateful refugee
Nayeri, Dina
Paper Book
A Finalist for the 2019 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction "Nayeri combines her own experience with those of refugees she meets as an adult, telling their stories with tenderness and reverence." --The New York Times Book Review "Nayeri weaves her empowering personal story...
My name is Tani : one boy's journey from refugee to chess champion : a true story
Adewumi, Tani
Paper Book
In their escape from Boko Haram's reign of terror in Nigeria, Tani's family's journey to the United States was nothing short of a miracle. Then 8-year-old Tani started competing with his public school in the ultra-exclusive chess clubs of New York City - and winning. A true story of sacrificing...
We are displaced : my journey and stories from refugee girls around the world
Yousafzai, Malala
Paper Book
Nobel Peace Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author Malala Yousafzai turns the faceless statistics and endless news stories about displacement into real people--introducing a small fraction of the millions worldwide who have fled home in this powerful and...
Nujeen : one girl's incredible journey from war-torn Syria in a wheelchair
Mustafa, Nujeen
Paper Book
Prize-winning journalist and the co-author of smash New York Times bestseller I Am Malala, Christina Lamb, now tells the inspiring true story of another remarkable young hero: Nujeen Mustafa, a teenager born with cerebral palsy, whose harrowing journey from war-ravaged Syria to Germany in a...
No friend but the mountains : writing from Manus prison
Boochani, Behrouz
Paper Book
Winner of Australia's richest literary award, No Friend but the Mountains is Kurdish-Iranian journalist and refugee Behrouz Boochani's account of his detainment on Australia's notorious Manus Island prison. Composed entirely by text message, this work represents the harrowing experience of...
My road from Damascus : a memoir
Saeed, Jamal
Paper Book
"A lyrical, extremely rich narrative of loss, memory, and trauma." -- STARRED review, Kirkus Reviews An extraordinary account of survival in Syria's most notorious military prisons that is written with "brutal clarity -- and yet, there is a poetic quality to the telling...

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