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Over the past few years, news headlines have regularly been filled with stories of refugee movements and forced migration, and the related subjects of asylum, exile and humanitarian responsibility. From the civil war in Syria, to the persecution of Rohingya refugees, and the movement of Central American migrants to the United States and Canada, the… Read more

For our last formal reading this semester (before we get to the good stuff – your papers!) we are tucking into Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend but the Mountains, which he wrote while detained on Manus Island using a smuggled phone and by texting out his story, one WhatsApp message at a time. It is a… Read more

I wasn’t initially going to assign Sonia Nozario’s Enrique’s Journey: The Story of a Boy’s Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother (Random House, 2007) but it caught my eye at some point last summer. I don’t even remember where I saw the reference but I was intrigued because there has been so much discussion… Read more