refugee
well founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or politcal opinion
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Editor of Displaced Anthology, Introduction to the book
Reyna Grande
Author of “The Parent who stays”, came from mexico
Chris Abanai
Born ineastern Nigeria, fled because of war and after coming back was imprisoned and then exiled because of his writing “The Road”
Lev Golinkin
Born in soviet era ukraine and faced discrimination as a jewish person, author of a backpack, a bear, eight crates of vodka
Warsan Shire
Somali writer born in Nairobi, Kenya, Teaching my mother how to give birth
Dinaw Mengetsu
Borin in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Author of An Honest Exit
Red Terror
Ethiopian Derg leader commited mass genocide during military rule
Moshin Hamid
Author of Key text Exit West, from lahore pakistan
MCRC
Multicultural COmmunity Resource Center, Eries key organization when it comes to helping place refugees
mykonos greece
small island where the characters in Exit west first arrive at
london England
The end goal of Saeed and Nadia immigration journey that they arrive at by using the black doors
Guests of the Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa
title of golinkins essay in tthe displaced, she funded the art museum he mentions when he and his father were in Vienna
director of flee
Jonas Rassmussen
Iconographies of Persuasion
study and use of symbols to persuade the public with oplitcal context
1951 Refugee convention agreement
established a universal definition of “refugee” and set out the basic rights of refugees and the legal obligations of signatory states to protect them
Absoluute Hospitality
unconidtional and absolute openness to a stranger, defined by Jacques derrida
1967 Protocl Relating to refugee status
REmoved limits on geographic and temporial limits on the 1951 definition established at the convention.
Rust Belt New Americans
film based on Basha-Aghas photo exhibit
New lands New selves
Book by zimbabwe born righterNovuyo Rosa Tshuma
