The Key to My Neighbor's House: Seeking Justice in Bosnia
and Rwanda.
By Elizabeth Neuffer
The Land of Green
Ghosts.
By Pascal Khoo Thwe
Landscape of Hope and
Despair: Palestinian Refugee Camps. By Julie Peteet
Little Daughter: A
Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West. By Zoya Phan and Damien Lewis
A Long Way Gone. By Ishmael Beah
The Lords of Poverty: The Power, Prestige, and Corruption
of the International Aid Business. By Graham Hancock
Lost Boys of Sudan: An American Story of the Refugee
Experience.
By Mark Bixler
Lost on Earth: Nomads of the New World. By Mark Fritz
The Man Who Tried to Save the World: The Dangerous Life
and Mysterious Disappearance of an American Hero. By Scott
Anderson
Managing Displacement: Refugees and the Politics of
Humanitarianism. By
Jennifer Hyndman
Managing Global Chaos: Sources of and Responses to
International Conflict. Ed. Chester Crocker, et. al.
Masses in Flight: The Global Crisis of Internal
Displacement. By
Roberta Cohen and Francis Deng
Mathematicians
Fleeing from Nazi Germany: Individuals Fates and Global Impact. By Reinhard
Siegmund-Schultze
The Middle of
Everywhere.
By Mary Pipher
Mississippi in Africa: The Saga of the Slaves of Prospect
Hill Plantation and Their Legacy in Liberia Today. By Alan Huffman
My Heart it is Delicious: the story of the Center for
International Health.
By Biloine W. Young
My Land and My
People: The Original Autobiography of His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet. By The Dalai Lama
No Dream Beyond My
Reach: One Woman's Remarkable Journey from Cambodian Refugee to American MD. By Sopheap Ly
Notes From My Travels. By Angelina Jolie
Nuer Journeys, Nuer
Lives: Sudanese Refugees in Minnesota. By Jon D. Holtzman and Nancy Foner
Of Beetles and
Angels: A Boy's Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard. By Mawi Asgedom
One Day the Soldiers Came: Voices of Children
in War.
By Charles London
An Ordinary
Man: An Autobiography.By Paul Rusesabagina.
Patronage or Partnership: Local Capacity Building in
Humanitarian Crisis.
By Ian Smillie
The Politics and
Ethics of Asylum: Liberal Democracy and the response to Refugees. By Matthew Gibney
Precious Pills:
Medicine and Social Change among Tibetan Refugees in India. By Audrey Prost
The Price of
Indifference: Refugees and Humanitarian Action in the New Century. By Arthur Helton
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide. By Samantha Power
Problems of Protection:
The UNHCR, Refugees, and Human Rights. Ed. by Niklaus Steiner, Mark Gibney, and
Gil Loescher
Protracted Refugee
Situations: Political, Human Rights and Security Implications. By Gil Loescher,
James Milner, Edward Newman, and Gary Troeller
Purity and
Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology Among Hutu Refugees in
Tanzania.
By Lisa H. Malkki
Refugee Women. By Susan Forbes
Martin
Refugees and Rescue:
The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald, 1935-1945. By Richard Breitman,
Barbara McDonald Stewart, and Severin Hochberg
Refugees in a Global
Era.
By Philip Marfleet
Rejecting Refugees:
Political Asylum in the 21 st Century. By Carol Bohmer and Amy Shuman
Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey. By Fergal Keane
Selling Olga: Stories
of Human Trafficking. By Louisa Waugh
Shadows of War: Violence, Power, and International Profiteering
in the Twenty-First Century. By Carolyn Nordstrom
The Shallow Graves of Rwanda. By Shaharyar M. Khan
The Shan: Refugees
without a Camp - An English Teacher in Thailand and Burma. By Bernice Koehler
Johnson
Silent Exodus:
Portraits of Iraqi Refugees in Exile (Photo Essay). By Khaled Hosseini
and Zalmai
Slave. By Mende Nazer and
Damien Lewis
The Spirit Catches
You and You Fall Down. By Anne Fadiman
Storming the Court:
How a Band of Law Students Fought the President and Won. By Brandt Goldstein
Swimming
Across: A Memoir.
By Andrew S. Grove.
They Poured Down Fire
on Us from the Sky.
By Alphonsian Deng, Benson Deng, Benjamin Ajak, and Judy A. Bernstein
This Flowing Towards
Me: A Story of God Arriving in Strangers. By Marilyn Lacey and Helen Prejean
The Turbulent Decade: Confronting the Refugee Crises of
the 1990s.
By Sadako Ogata
UNHCR: The Politics
and Practice of Refugee Protection in the 20 th Century. By Gil Loescher
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees: Making a
Difference in Our World. By Leslie Burger and Debra Rahm
United Stress of
America (in Serbo-Croation language only). By Dalibor Bilic
The Unwanted: A
Memoir of Childhood. By Kien Nguyen
War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning. By Chris Hedges
We Shared the Peeled Orange: The Letters of "Papa Louis"
from the Thai-Cambodian Border, 1981-1993. By Louis
Braile
We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed
with our families: Stories from Rwanda. By Philip Gourevitch
What Every Person Should Know About War. By Chris Hedges
What is the What. By Dave Eggers
What Women Do in Wartime. By Meredith Turshen
and Clotilde Twagiramariya
When Broken Glass
Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge. By Chanrithy Him
Where the Rivers
Meet:A Tibetan Refugee Community's Struggle to Survive in the High Mountains of
Nepal. By
Clint Rogers
White Pearl and I: A
Memoir of a Political Refugee. By Svetlana Kim
Who is Ruling in South Sudan?: The Role of NGOs in
Rebuilding the Socio-Political Order. By Volker Riehl
Winning the Peace: An American Strategy for Post-Conflict
Reconstruction. Ed. Robert Orr
World Refugee Survey 2005. By the U.S.
Committee for Refugees
Film
24 Days in Brooks
(2007)
Dana Inkster, 42 min In a
decade, tiny Brooks, Alberta has been transformed from a socially conservative,
primarily Caucasian town to one of the most diverse places in Canada.
Immigrants and refugees have flocked here to work at Lakeside Packers - one of
the world's largest slaughterhouses. Centering on the 24 days of the first-ever
strike at Lakeside, this film is a nuanced portrait of people working together
and adapting to change. As 24 Days in Brooks shows, people from widely
different backgrounds can work together for respect, dignity, and change - even
though getting there is not easy.
Afghan Stories, Taran Davies and
Walied Osman, 58 minutes Filmmakers
Taran Davies and Walied Osman set out to gain an understanding of how a
generation of war has affected the Afghan people, spending time with families
in Queens, New York, the frontline in Afghanistan, and points in between.
Against Wind and
Tide: A Cuban Odyssey, Jim Burroughs, 57 minutes In
Spring 1980, Fidel Castro opened the Cuban port of Mariel to thousands of
refugees to cross to Key West, Florida and the promise of a new life in the
U.S. Director Jim Burroughs and his crew boarded a flotilla vessel bound for
Mariel to film the exodus. Burroughs charts the lives of three individuals
during their first years in the U.S.
Aka Don Bonus, Spencer Nakasako and
Sokly Ny, 55 minutes After
escaping the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, the Ny family became one of thousands of
refugees faced with resettlement in the U.S. Their lives unfold through the
lens of this stirring video diary, which sees 18-year-old Sokly Ny (Don Bonus)
struggling to graduate from high school.
Asylum, Garry Beitel, 78 minutes Follows
three refugee claimants through the legal process that decides their status in
Canada: Marnus Chowdhury from Bangladesh, Tatiana Linco from Kazakhstan, and
Cristian Ghitescu, a stowaway from Romania. Their stories show the questions
that have to be answered to determine who is a refugee .
Asylum, Sandy McLeod and Gini Reticker, 20 minutes Baaba
Andoh fled Ghana in fear for her life, when her long-lost father tried to force
her to undergo female genital mutilation. Arriving in the U.S. with a phony
passport, she was imprisoned by the INS for one year while her asylum case was
tried. Her story ends in victory, but she refuses to forget the thousands of
asylum seekers who remain in detention today.
Beautiful People, Jasmin Dizdar, 107 minutes In London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the
preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees
from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving. The lives of four English families are
affected in different ways by encounter with the refugees, and one of the
families improbably becomes involved with a Balkan refugee through the England
vs. Holland match.
Becoming American, Ken Levine and
Ivory Waterworth Levine Becoming
American records the odyssey of Hang Sou and his family, as they travel from
Laos to a refugee camp in Thailand to a new home in Seattle.
Being Hmong Means
Being Free,
NEWIST/CESA #7 and Wisconsin Public Television, 56 minutes
Focusing on a Hmong immigrant community in Wisconsin, this documentary offers a
comprehensive look at fundamental practices of the ancient Hmong culture and
investigates how these have framed Hmong culture and community. "Being
Hmong Means Being Free" explores how life has changed for Hmong in the
U.S. in the space of a generation.
The Betrayal:
Nerakhoon (2008), Ellen Kuras, co-directed by Thavisouk Phrasavath, 96
minutes During the Vietnam War, the US government waged its own secret war in the
neighboring country of Laos. When the US withdrew, thousands of Laotians who
fought alongside American forces were left behind to face imprisonment or
execution. One family, the Phrasavaths, made the courageous decision to escape
to America. Hoping to find safety, they discovered a different kind of war.
Blue Collar and
Buddha,Taggart
Siegel, 57 minutes A
Laotian community in Rockford, Illinois survives terrorist bombings and
drive-by shootings at its local Buddhist temple.
Brothers and Others, Nicolas Rossier, 54
minutes Brothers and Others follows a number of
immigrant and American families in the U.S. following September 11, 2001. In
interviews with Arab and Muslim immigrants, government representatives, and
legal and historical experts, this film explores how America's fear of
terrorism has negatively impacted many U.S. residents.
Bui Doi: Life Like
Dust, Ahrin
Mishan & Nick Rothenberg, 28 minutes This
film takes us inside the mind of Ricky Phan, once a gang leader in Southern California
and now serving an 11-year sentence for armed robbery. We are forced to ask
ourselves which is more violent: fleeing from a war-ravaged nation or trying to
survive in an alien western culture?
Catfish in Black Bean
Sauce,
Chi Moui Lo, 119 minutes Dwayne and his older sister Mai are adults: Mai is married to Vinh, Dwayne
is about to propose to Nina. Twenty-two years ago, when Mai was 10, she and
Dwayne were refugees in Vietnam, adopted by Harold and Dee Williams,
African-Americans from Los Angeles. When Mai locates their birth mother, Thahn,
and she arrives in Los Angeles, tensions reach the breaking point.
A Family Crisis: The
Elian Gonzales Story, Christopher
Leitch, 90 minutes
This film is based on the true story of the five-year-old Cuban boy who is the
sole survivor of a refugee boat that sunk in a storm on its way to the U.S.
Fire Dancer, Jawed Wassel, 79 minutes The film follows Haris, an Afghan-American artist who shows his work at a
downtown Manhattan art gallery. His story explores the ramifications of leaving
Afghanistan and living as a refugee in America. Haris embarks on a journey
through the world of Afghan-Americans to learn more about their culture,
finding humor and tragedy.
First Person Plural, Deann Borshay, 56
minutes In 1966,
at the age of nine, Deann Borshay came to the U.S. from South Korea as one of
tens of thousands of children adopted by white American families after the
Korean War. In this extraordinary personal documentary she chronicles her
struggle to reconcile the demands of two families, two cultures and two
nations.
Flygtningene fro
Kosovo,
Per Wennick This three-part documentary follows two families on their way from
Kosovo to the primitive conditions in a refugee camp in Macedonia to
resettlement in Randers, Denmark.
The Fortress (La
Forteresse) Fernand
Melgar, 104 minutes This
documentary takes a look at a Swiss registration and processing center for
asylum seekers. It follows the lives of the residents and the staff and
immerses us into the heart of this "daily sorting process of human beings."
From Refugee to
Immigrant: A Story of Three Kosovar Albanian Americans, Ellen Friedland and
Curt Fissel Traces
the lives of three refugees from Kosova who arrived at Fort Dix, New Jersey in
1999. With footage from the U.S. and Kosova, the documentary examines the
process of assimilation into American society.
God Grew Tired of Us, Christopher Quinn,
89 minutes Winner
of the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2006 Sundance Film
Festival, God Grew Tired of
Us explores the spirit of three Sudanese young men who leave their
homeland, triumph over adversities, and move to America.
Gran Torino (2008) Clint Eastwood, 116
minutes Walt
Kowalski is a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his
Michigan neighborhood and the world around him. Kowalski is a grumpy,
tough-minded, unhappy an old man, who can't get along with either his kids or
his neighbors, a Korean War veteran whose prize possession is a 1972 Gran
Torino he keeps in mint condition. When his neighbor Thao, a young Hmong
teenager under pressure from his gang member cousin, tries to steal his Gran
Torino, Kowalski sets out to reform the youth. Drawn against his will into the
life of Thao's family, Kowalski is soon taking steps to protect them from the
gangs that infest their neighborhood.
A Great Wonder: Lost
Children of Sudan, Kim Shelton, 61 minutes Documents
the difficult transition of three of the "Lost Boys and Girls" of
Sudan to lives in Seattle, Washington.
Heavy Metal in
Baghdad (2007) Suroosh Alvi and Eddy Moretti, 84 min In
the late summer of 2006, filmmakers Eddy Moretti and Suroosh Alvi traveled to
Baghdad to meet and interview the only heavy metal band in Iraq, Acrassicauda.
"Heavy Metal in Baghdad" is the story of the band and its members,
young Iraqis whose lives have been distorted and displaced by years of
continual warfare in their homeland. The filmmakers have collected glimpses
into the struggles of Acrassicauda as they try to stay together and stay alive.
The International Rescue Committee has been working to resettle the members of
Acrassicauda since last summer. Nearly three years after fleeing Iraq and
living as a refugee in Syria and then Turkey, heavy metal drummer Marwan Riyadh
stepped off an airplane at Newark Liberty International Airport on January 30,
2009.
Home Across
Lands(2008) John
Lavall The
film chronicles the work of the International Institute of Rhode Island as it
guides and empowers a group of Kunaman refugees making the transition from life
in the Shimelba Refugee Camp in Northern Ethiopia to their new home in America.
In This World, Michael
Winterbottom, 88
minutes The story of two Afghan cousins who trek from a refugee camp in Pakistan to
London, where relatives await them.
Into the Arms of
Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000) Mark Jonathan
Harris, 122 min In
1938 and 1939, about 10,000 children, most of them Jews, were sent by their
parents from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia to the safety of England
where foster families took most of them in for the duration of the war. Years
later, eleven children, one child's mother, an English foster mother, a
survivor of Auschwitz who didn't go to England, and two of the kindertransport
organizers remember: the days before the Nazis, saying farewell to family,
traveling to England, meeting their foster families, and trying to find
families after the war ended.
Journey to Kapasseni:
A Refugee's Gift, Bill Weaver, 51 minutes Joseph
and Perpetua Alfazema are refugees from Mozambique who live in Victoria,
Canada. They are determined to start a school in Joseph's home village and,
against all odds, they raise money for the school and begin a long journey.
Kelly Loves Tony, Spencer Nakasako, 57
minutes Seventeen
year-old Kelly Saeteurn has a dream: an "American dream." Just out
of high school and on her way to college, Kelly envisions a rosy future. Kelly
is the first in her family of Iu Mien refugees from Laos to have accomplished
as much as she already has, but she encounters grave obstacles in the course of
pursuing her dream.
The Letter, Ziad H.
Hamzeh, 76
minutes In the wake of 9/11, a firestorm erupts when the mayor of Lewiston, Maine
sends a letter to 1,100 newly arrived Somali refugees advising that the city's
resources are strained to the limit and asking that other Somalis not to move
to the city. Interpreted as racism by some and a rallying cry by white
supremacist groups across the U.S., The
Letter documents the crossfire of emotions and events.
Letter Back Home, Nith Lacroix and Sang Thepkaysone, 14
minutes A compelling look at life in San Francisco's Tenderloin district for
Laotian and Cambodian youth.
The Lost Boys, Clive Gordon, 77 minutes Orphaned by the war in Sudan and raised in a desert refugee camp, Moses
and his young friends are one day invited by the U.S. government to start a new
life in Boston.
Lost Boys of Sudan, Megan Mylan and Jon
Shenk An
Emmy-nominated feature-length documentary that follows two Sudanese refugees
from Sudan and Kenya to the U.S. Winner of an Independent Spirit Award and two
Emmy nominations.
Mrs. Goundo's
Daughter (2009), Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater, 60 minutes An
official selection of the Human Rights Watch Film festival, the documentary is
a moving story of a West African mother's fight for asylum in the US to protect
her two-year-old daughter from female genital cutting.
North Korea - Shadows
and Whispers,
Kim Jung-Eun, 52 minutes This documentary, filmed in the remote northeast mountains of China,
captures the dire circumstances of North Korean refugees who journey to China.
One Family, Voices &
Visions/The Documentary
Project for Refugee Youth, 10 minutes "One
Family" tells the story of twelve youth from Sierra Leone, Bosnia,
Burundi, and Serbia who have weathered war and long journeys to America, and
New York City. Weaving their voices into a shared story, they reflect their
views on themselves and the whole world, joined as one family.
Rain in a Dry Land, Anne Makepeace An
official Selection of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival 2006,
the film chronicles two years in the lives of two Somali Bantu families who
leave Kakuma refugee camp for Springfield, Massachusetts and Atlanta, Georgia.
Reflections:
Returning to Vietnam, Producer
: KCSM TV60, 30 minutes Vietnamese refugees speak about the loss of family and friends, migration
and feelings about their war torn homeland. The program offers three individual
perspectives from the Vietnamese Diaspora.
Refugee, Spencer Nakasako In
this film, three young refugees raised in San Francisco's Tenderloin district,
journey to Cambodia.
Roosevelt's America, Roger Weisberg and
Tod Lending , 30 minutes An
inspirational story of a Liberian refugee, Roosevelt Henderson, who resettles
in Chicago from Liberia attempts to reunite with his wife and young daughter,
who are still in Liberia. Winner of numerous awards at the Columbus
International Film and Video Festival, the San Francisco Black Film Festival,
the Cleveland Film Festival, and other venues.
Shadow Over Tibet:
Stories in Exile,
Rachel Lyon, 57 minutes This film is a personalized account of Tibetan refugees attempting to
maintain their ancient culture in exile while using nonviolent means to bring
peace and freedom to their homeland. "Shadow Over Tibet" investigates
the personal odyssey of Norbu Samphell, a Tibetan immigrant now living in the
U.S., who is determined to become part of the American social fabric without
abandoning his cultural heritage; and the Dalai Lama, religious and secular
leader of Tibet-in-exile, who seeks to create a "zone of peace" in
Tibet.
Sierra Leone's
Refugee All Stars, Zach Niles and Banker White Chronicles
a band of six Sierra Leonean musicians living in a refugee camp in Guinea.
Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars chronicles the band over three years, from
Guinean refugee camps back to war-ravaged Sierra Leone, where they realize the
dream of recording their first studio album.
The Split Horn: Life of a Hmong Shaman in
America, Taggart
Siegel, 60 minutes Follows
the emotional saga of Paja Thao, a Hmong shaman and his family in the U.S. who
were transplanted from the mountains of Laos during the Vietnam War to
America's heartland. For over seventeen years, Siegel has chronicled the
intimate and private lives of Paja Thao, his wife, and their thirteen children.
This intimate family portrait explores universal issues of cultural
transformation, spirituality and family. It is a rare close-up view of one
Hmong family's resettlement and acculturation in America.
A Stranger in My
Homeland (2005) Chloe Traicos, 45 minutes This
film tells the story of the Zimbabwean refugees who spoke out against the
regime of terror under which they lived. These brave people were tortured
electrocuted and left for dead.
TL Xmas, School Daze,
and Home,
Spencer Nakasako in collaboration with the Vietnamese Youth Development Center
(VYDC), 50 minutes "TL
Xmas" follows Cambodian youths as they attend a "Gift Giveaways"
program and experience the holiday for the first time. "School Daze"
humorously breaks down a day in the lives of six students from different San
Francisco high schools. "Home" closes the package with nine youths'
tender, poetic dedication to their family, friends, and San Francisco.
The Valley, Dan Reed, 70 minutes A
real-time war documentary made in the middle of the Kosovo ethnic conflict, the
piece was filmed in 1998 in Drenica Valley where the Albanian Kosovo Liberation
Army (KLA) had its base. The film documents interviews with people on both
sides of the conflict.
War Child (2008) Christian Karim
Chrobog, 94 minutes The
film documents the story of Emmanuel Jal, a former child soldier of Sudan's
civil war. He is now an emerging international hip hop star sharing a message
of peace for his war-torn land and beloved Africa.
War Dance (2006), Sean Fine and
Andrea Nix, 105 minutes Set
in civil war-ravaged Northern Uganda, this Best Documentary Oscar nominee
follows the lives of three youngsters who attend school in a refugee camp and
find hope through song and dance. Coming from a world in which children are
abducted from their families and forced to fight in the rebel army, these kids
give it their all when they travel to the capital city to take part in the
prestigious Kampala Music Festival.
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