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On Borders and Belonging
by Lauren Markham
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by Jason De León
Published Sep 2025
Read ReviewsAn intense, intimate and first-of-its-kind look at the world of human smuggling in Latin America, by a MacArthur "genius" grant winner and anthropologist with unprecedented access
by David Graeber, David Wengrow
Published Apr 2023
Read ReviewsA dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution―from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality―and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.
Somewhere in the Unknown World
by Kao Kalia Yang
Published Nov 2020
Read ReviewsFrom "an exceptional storyteller," Somewhere in the Unknown World is a collection of powerful stories of refugees who have found new lives in Minnesota's Twin Cities, told by the award-winning author of The Latehomecomer and The Song Poet.
A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves
by Jason DeParle
Published Aug 2020
Read ReviewsThe definitive chronicle of our new age of global migration, told through the multi-generational saga of a Filipino family, by a veteran New York Times reporter and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist.
by Patrick Kingsley
Published Jan 2017
Read ReviewsIn the humane tradition of Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers comes a searing account of the international refugee crisis.
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