Please Note: We do not endorse any one resource as perfect or complete. Each resource listed is a tool to help us toward better understanding. Also, due to the circumstances many people facing displacement encounter, many depictions and accounts in these resources may contain violence of varying forms.

Books – Stories & Memoirs

• The Ungrateful Refugee by Dina Nayeri
• Somewhere in the Unknown World by Kao Kalia Yang
• We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls around the
  World by Malala Yousafzai
• How Dare the Sun Rise by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
• Where the Wind Leads by Vinh Chung
• The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil
• The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen
• Don't Look Back: A Memoir of War, Survival, and My Journey from Sudan to America by Achut Deng and Keely Hutton
• Newcomers to Neighbors: Migrants and Refugees from the Middle East in Southern California by Michael Longinow and Tamara J. Welter
• After the Last Border: Two Stories and the Story of Refuge in America by Jessica Goudea
• In Search of Safety: Voices of Refugees by Susan Kuklin
• Drawn Across Borders: True Stories of Human Migration by George Butler
• Brave Histories & Hopeful Futures by Refugee Hope Partners and Literacy and Community Initiative
• The Fox Hunt: A Refugee’s Memoir of Coming to America by Mohammad Al Samawi
• The Naked Don’t Fear the Water by Matthieu Aikins

Books – Policies & Response to Refugees

• Refuge: Rethinking Refugee Policy in a Changing World by Paul Collier & Alexander Betts
• Restoring Students’ Innate Power: Trauma-Responsive Strategies for Teaching
  Multilingual Newcomers by Louise El Yaafori
• The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom by Helen Thorpe
• Refugee High: Coming of Age in America by Elly Fishman
• Outcasts United by Warren St. John
• Home Now by Cynthia Anderson
• City of Thorns by Ben Rawlence

Books – Fiction

• Refugee by Alan Gratz
• Refuge: A Novel by Dina Nayeri
• Refugee 87 by Ele Fountain
• As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
• Girl at War by Sara Novic

Books – Children/Young Adults

• The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q Raúf
• Nowhere Boy by Katherine Marsh

Poetry

• Sea Prayers by Khaled Hosseini
• Things We Carry on the Sea by Wang Ping
• Ink Knows No Borders edited by Patrice Vecchione and Alyssa Raymond
• Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire
• Above Us the Milky Way: An Illuminated Alphabet by Fowzia Karimi
• Call Me by My True Name by Thich Nhat Hanh

Films

• The Swimmers (2022)
• Flee (2021)
• The Donut King (2021)
• Limbo (2020)
• Midnight Traveler (2019)
• For Sama (2019)
• Sky and Ground (2018)
• First They Killed My Father (2017)
• Human Flow (2017) - Documentary
• Rain in a Dry Land (2016) - Documentary
• The Good Lie (2014)
• Beasts of No Nation (2015)
• Lost Boys of Sudan (2003) - Documentary

Podcasts

• Forced to Flee - UNHCR, the
• UN Refugee Agency
  Resettled - VPM

Additional Resources

• Refugee Council USA
• UNHCR, Teaching about refugees
• UN News, Migrants and Refugees
• Video: What Does It Mean to be a Refugee?
• Video: Kids, Refugees, Questions: "What is it like to have no home?"