Online Resources
- Forced to flee: Top countries refugees are coming fromStatistics and information about refugees and the nations the most refugees come from today.
- How America's refugee population has changed over time"Each year, the United States permanently resettles more refugees than any country in the world, but the number and composition of official refugees in America isn’t always stable."
- U.S. to sharply limit refugee flows to 30,000 in 2019"The United States would cap the number of refugees allowed into the country at 30,000 for fiscal-year 2019, a sharp drop from a limit of 45,000 it set for 2018."
- The world's refugees in numbersFacts and figures about the global refugee crisis from Amnesty International.
Books in Fitzgerald Library
The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You by Call Number: General Collection - Lower Level 305.906912 N33ISBN: 9781948226424Publication Date: 2019
The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives by Call Number: General Collection - Lower Level 305.906914 D61ISBN: 9781419729485Publication Date: 2018
No Path Home: Humanitarian Camps and the Grief of Displacement by Call Number: General Collection - Lower Level 362.87 D92ISBN: 9781501712302Publication Date: 2018
Escaping Wars and Waves: Encounters with Syrian Refugees by Call Number: General Collection - Lower Level 362.87 K95ISBN: 9780271082240Publication Date: 2018
City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp by Call Number: General Collection - Upper Level 967.73 R25ISBN: 9781250067630Publication Date: 2016-01-05
Scholarly Articles
- The Reception of Immigrants and Refugees in Western Countries: The Challenges of Our Time"In a rapidly changing world, the challenges of migration, as well as its potential benefits, are hotly debated. Recent years have seen new challenges as a result of unprecedented levels of migration [and] economic and security concerns surrounding immigration. It [is] all the more important to understand the psychological processes underpinning attitudes toward immigrants and refugees, support for particular immigration policies and responses to changing policies, the role of portrayals of immigrants in the media, and the consequences of immigration attitudes and policies." (from article abstract)
- Social Distance toward Syrian Refugees: The Role of Intergroup Anxiety in Facilitating Positive Relations"The number of asylum seekers and refugees across the world is rapidly increasing. Negative attitudes toward these groups are globally prevalent and typically hostile because most receiving country citizens perceive them to be a security threat and an economic burden. This paper aims to understand the antecedents of negative attitudes toward a large refugee group currently garnering a great deal of attention—Syrian refugees, and experimentally test ways to ameliorate negative attitudes." (from article abstract)