Immigrants, Refugees and Exiles
The characters in The Kite Runner were exiled from their own country and became refugees in the United States. Through history many people have followed the same path from their country of origin to a new one. Here you can compare the experiences of this family to others at different times in history.
Free Internet Resources:
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. "UNHCR Country Information : Afghanistan." UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency. 16 June 2006 2006. UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees). UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency. Accessed 16 June 2006 http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/country?iso=afg
Periodical Articles and Chapters:
Cheema, Pervaiz Iqbal. "The Afghan Refugees and Pakistan's Internal Security Problems." Refugees and Regional Secuity in South Asia. Ed. S. D. Muni, Lok Raj Baral, and Regional Centre for Strategic Studies. Delhi, India: Konark Publishers, 1996. 178-191. Call number:
HV640.4.S67 R45 1996
Lee, Maggy. "Human Trade and the Criminalization of Irregular Migration." International Journal of the Sociology of Law 33.1 (2005/3): 1-15.
Morioka-Douglas, Nancy, Teresa Sacks, and Gwen ER -. Yeo. "Issues in Caring for Afghan American Elders: Insights from Literature and a Focus Group." Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology 19.1 (2004): 27-40.
Rubin, Barnett R. "Afghanistan Under the Taliban." Current History 98.625 (1999): 79.
Omidian, Patricia A., and Juliene G. Lipson. "Afghans." American Immigrant Cultures: Builders of a Nation. Ed. David Levinson and Melvin Ember. New York: Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1997. 7-9. Call number: E184.A1 .A63448 1997
Shahrani, Nazif M. "War, Factionalism, and the State in Afghanistan." American Anthropologist 104.3 (2002): 715-22.
"Terror's Other Victims." World Press Review 49.1 (2002): 20-4. PAIS International. Syracuse University Library. Accessed 28 July 2006
Entire Volume of a Journal:
Use the directions for finding books to locate a print copy of this volume.
Or, you can access it online via the SU Library databases Proquest Research Library or Expanded Academic . Ask Us for help if needed.
Malkin, Lawrence. World Policy Journal; Reflections in a Distorted Mirror. Vol. 17. World Policy Institute, 2000. Call number: D839 .W5687
Books
Abramson, Edward A. The Immigrant Experience in American Literature. Vol. 10. Elvet Riverside: British Association for American Studies, 1982. Call number: PS374.I48 A2
Ahmedi, Farah, and Mir Tamim Ansary. The Story of My Life : An Afghan Girl on the Other Side of the Sky. 1st ed. New York: Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 2005 Call number: HV640.4N54 A3 2005.
Anderson, Wanni Wibulswasdi, and Robert G. Lee. Displacements and Diasporas : Asians in the Americas / Edited by Wanni W. Anderson, Robert G. Lee. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2005. Call number: E29.A75 D57 2005
Ansary, Tamim. West of Kabul, East of New York : An Afghan American Story. 1st ed. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002. Call number: E184.A65 A6 2002
Haines, David W. Refugees in America in the 1990s : A Reference Handbook. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996. Call number: HV6404.U54 R425 1996
Kain, Geoffrey. Ideas of Home : Literature of Asian Migration. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1997. Call number: PS153.A84 I34 1997
Knippling, Alpana Sharma. New Immigrant Literatures in the United States : A Sourcebook to our Multicultural Literary Heritage. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996. Call number: PS153.M56 N475 1996
Lischer, Sarah Kenyon. Dangerous Sanctuaries : Refugee Camps, Civil War, and the Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aid. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005. Call number: HV640 .L48 2005
Marfleet, Philip. Refugees in a Global Era. Basingstoke England ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Call number:
HV640 .M333 2006
Muller, Gilbert H. New Strangers in Paradise : The Immigrant Experience and Contemporary American Fiction. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1999. Call number: PS 74.I48 M85 1999
Muni, S. D., Lok Raj Baral, and Regional Centre for Strategic Studies. Refugees and Regional Security in South Asia. Delhi, India: Konark Publishers, 1996. Call number:
HV640.4.S67 R45 1996
Ogata, Sadako N. The Turbulent Decade : Confronting the Refugee Crises of the 1990s. 1st ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 2005. Call number:
HV640.3 .O45 2005
Omidian, Patricia A., and Juliene G. Lipson. "Afghans." American Immigrant Cultures: Builders of a Nation. Ed. David Levinson and Melvin Ember. New York: Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1997. 7-9. Call number: E184.A1A63448 1997 REF
Omidian, Patricia A. Aging and Family in an Afghan Refugee Community : Transitions and Transformations. New York: Garland Pub., 1996. Call number: HV640.5.A29 O55 1997
Simone, Roberta. The Immigrant Experience in American Fiction : An Annotated Bibliography. Lanham ; London: Scarecrow Press, 1995. Call number: PS374.I48 S56 1994
Whittaker, David J. Asylum Seekers and Refugees in the Contemporary World. London; New York: Routledge, 2006. Call number: HV640.W45 2006
Zolberg, Aristide R., Astri Suhrke, and Sergio Aguayo. Escape from Violence : Conflict and the Refugee Crisis in the Developing World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. Call number: HV640.4.D44 Z65 1989
Video/DVD:
Well-Founded Fear. Dir. Robertson, Shari, Michael Camerini, and Epidavros Project Inc. Epidavros Project, 2004.
Location: Law Library - Reserves - Video Collection. Call Number: Videotape KF4836 .R63 2000
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