Refugee Week: Discover a Story
Hannah
Refugee Week was 17-23rd June this year. At the end of 2023, an estimated 117.3 million people worldwide were forcibly displaced due to persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations and events seriously disturbing the public order. For context, that's roughly the same amount of people as the entire population of the Philippines, or double the population of Italy.
Refugee Week is the world’s largest arts & culture festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary. Established in 1998 in the UK, this annual festival aligns with World Refugee Day, celebrated globally on June 20th.
Through their 'Simple Acts' programme people are encouraged to Discover A Story. Stories are a way of making sense of the world and our place in it. They help us connect with other people and ourselves. By reading and listening to stories about refugee experiences, we can deepen our understanding of the impact of forced migration and displacement.
That's where we come in! We've pulled together a selection of books from the list created by Refugee Week for you to browse (and added a few of our own recommendations too).
Gif/Illustration by Manjit Thapp
Linked Books
![Image for All Else Failed : The Unlikely Volunteers at the Heart of the Migrant Aid Crisis](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97818044/9781804440247.jpg)
- title
- All Else Failed : The Unlikely Volunteers at the Heart of the Migrant Aid Crisis
- author
- Sachs, Dana
![Image for My Fourth Time, We Drowned : Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97800084/9780008445614.jpg)
- title
- My Fourth Time, We Drowned : Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route
- author
- Hayden, Sally
![Image for Doro : Refugee, hero, champion, survivor](https://jackets.dmmserver.com/media/356/97818001/9781800182554.jpg)
- title
- Doro : Refugee, hero, champion, survivor
- author
- by Brendan Woodhouse (Author) , Doro Goumaneh (Author)
![Image for From Another World](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97817837/9781783786664.jpg)
- title
- From Another World
- author
- Santangelo, Evelina
![Image for Assembly](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97802419/9780241992661.jpg)
- title
- Assembly
- author
- Brown, Natasha
![Image for A Woman is No Man](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97800083/9780008341060.jpg)
- title
- A Woman is No Man
- author
- Rum, Etaf
![Image for The World and All That It Holds](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97803305/9780330515795.jpg)
- title
- The World and All That It Holds
- author
- Hemon, Aleksandar
![Image for The Queens Of Sarmiento Park](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97803490/9780349016474.jpg)
- title
- The Queens Of Sarmiento Park
- author
- Villada, Camila Sosa, Maude, Kit
![Image for AMMA](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97817392/9781739260149.jpg)
- title
- AMMA
- author
- de Silva, Saraid
![Image for Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head](https://jackets.dmmserver.com/media/356/97817847/9781784743703.jpg)
- title
- Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
- author
- Warsan Shire
![Image for The Seers](https://jackets.dmmserver.com/media/356/97819135/9781913513511.jpg)
- title
- The Seers
- author
- Sulaiman Addonia
![Image for Hostile Environment : How Immigrants Became Scapegoats](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97817887/9781788739603.jpg)
- title
- Hostile Environment : How Immigrants Became Scapegoats
- author
- Goodfellow, Maya
![Image for The Last Day Before Exile : Stories of Resistance, Displacement & Finding Home : 19](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97819124/9781912489800.jpg)
- title
- The Last Day Before Exile : Stories of Resistance, Displacement & Finding Home : 19
- author
- Bucak, Selin
![Image for The Ungrateful Refugee : What Immigrants Never Tell You](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97817868/9781786893499.jpg)
- title
- The Ungrateful Refugee : What Immigrants Never Tell You
- author
- Nayeri, Dina
![Image for Dispatches from the Diaspora : From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97805713/9780571376827.jpg)
- title
- Dispatches from the Diaspora : From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter
- author
- Younge, Gary
![Image for We Have Always Been Here](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97815294/9781529404869.jpg)
- title
- We Have Always Been Here
- author
- Habib, Samra
![Image for The Day War Came](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97814063/9781406382938.jpg)
- title
- The Day War Came
- author
- Davies, Nicola, Cobb, Rebecca
![Image for Adnan : The boy who helped his mummy remember](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97807112/9780711267077.jpg)
- title
- Adnan : The boy who helped his mummy remember
- author
- Arrigo, Mark, Chatterton, Steven, Brisly, Diala
![Image for Someone Just Like You](https://jackets.dmmserver.com/media/356/97814711/9781471145711.jpg)
- title
- Someone Just Like You
- author
- Helen Docherty
![Image for We Are Here](https://jackets.dmmserver.com/media/356/97818383/9781838346133.jpg)
- title
- We Are Here
- author
- Kate Rafiq