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- Nira Yuval-Davis. The Politics of Belonging: Intersectional Contestations. Los Angeles, CA: Sage Press, 2014.
- Valeria Luiselli. Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions. Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 2017.
- Melissa Fleming. A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival. New York, NY: Flatiron Books, 2017.
- Jose Antonio Vargas. Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2018.
- Dave Eggers. The Monk of Mokha. New York, NY: Knopf, 2018.
- Marta Bausells and Maeve Shearlaw. "Poets speak out for refugees: 'No one leaves home, unless home is the mouth of a shark'." The Guardian. September 16, 2016. January 22, 2019. <https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/16/poets-speak-out-for-refugees->.
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