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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American CityMatthew Desmond201654 pts7 wins9 listsCrownSociety & CultureClass, Poverty & Inequality+2
Between the World and MeTa-Nehisi Coates201536 pts3 wins7 listsSpiegel & GrauMemoir & AutobiographyAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great MigrationIsabel Wilkerson201030 pts5 wins7 listsRandom HouseHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and WhiteJoseph Lelyveld198524 pts3 wins3 listsTimes BooksHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the BorderFrancisco Cantú201920 pts1 wins4 listsRiverhead BooksMemoir & AutobiographyClass, Poverty & Inequality+1
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in BetweenHisham Matar201620 pts1 wins4 listsVintage BooksMemoir & AutobiographyTravel, Exploration & Place+2
The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes, Chinese Migration, and Global PoliticsMae Ngai202218 pts2 wins3 listsW. W. NortonHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary WorldMaya Jasanoff201118 pts1 wins3 listsKnopfHistoryClass, Poverty & Inequality+1
China MenMaxine Hong Kingston197718 pts1 wins3 listsKnopfRace & EthnicityCivil Rights & Racial Justice+2
The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed AmericaNicholas Lemann199116 pts3 wins4 listsKnopfHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic WorldStuart B. Schwartz200814 pts2 wins2 listsYale University PressReligionIntellectual History & Ideas+2
Belonging: A German Reckons With History and HomeNora Krug201810 pts1 wins1 listsScribnerMemoir & AutobiographyIntellectual Biography+2
Black Flags: The Rise of ISISJoby Warrick201510 pts1 wins1 listsDoubledayPolitics & GovernmentAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Nikolaus Pevsner: The LifeSusie Harries201110 pts1 wins1 listsChatto & WindusBiographyReconstruction+3
Mexican Americans: The Ambivalent MinorityPeter Skerry199010 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressRace & EthnicityAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised LandDavid K. Shipler198710 pts1 wins1 listsTimes BooksRace & EthnicityMedia, Journalism & Public Opinion+2
A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954-1962Alistair Horne197710 pts1 wins1 listsMacmillanWar & MilitaryGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+3
The Ardent ExileJosephine Phelan195110 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintPolitics & GovernmentMigration & Diaspora+1
My Fourth Time We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration RouteSally Hayden202210 pts1 wins3 listsMelville HousePolitics & GovernmentAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants And the Making of an American LifeLauren Markham201810 pts1 wins3 listsCrownRace & EthnicityMigration & Diaspora+2
Cobalt Red: How the blood of the Congo powers our livesSiddharth Kara202410 pts0 wins3 listsSt. Martin's PressSociety & CultureAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small TownNick Reding20098 pts2 wins2 listsBloomsburySociety & CultureClass, Poverty & Inequality+3
An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three CenturiesEmma Rothschild20228 pts1 wins2 listsPrinceton University PressHistoryClass, Poverty & Inequality+2
Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787–2005James T. Campbell20078 pts1 wins2 listsPenguin PressRace & EthnicityMiddle East & North Africa+2
Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves MadeEugene D. Genovese19758 pts1 wins2 listsUnknown imprintHistoryMiddle East & North Africa+2
Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany and Italy in the Decade After World War ICharles Maier19768 pts1 wins2 listsPrinceton University PressHistoryMigration & Diaspora+2
The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell YouDina Nayeri20198 pts0 wins2 listsCatapultMemoir & AutobiographyHousing, Cities & Urban Life+2
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and FoundSuketu Mehta20048 pts0 wins2 listsKnopfSociety & CultureMigration & Diaspora+2
Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, PolandJan T. Gross20018 pts0 wins2 listsPrinceton University PressHistoryClass, Poverty & Inequality+1
City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee CampBen Rawlence20168 pts0 wins3 listsPicadorRace & EthnicityMigration & Diaspora+2
A Greek Tragedy: One Day, a Deadly Shipwreck, and the Human Cost of the Refugee CrisisJeanne Carstensen20246 pts0 wins2 listsSimon & SchusterJournalism & ReportageHousing, Cities & Urban Life+2
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make UsRachel Aviv20226 pts0 wins2 listsMacmillanSociety & CultureMemoir & Personal History+2
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978Kai Bird20106 pts0 wins2 listsScribnerMemoir & AutobiographyMigration & Diaspora+2
Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family & FatherlandCarmen Callil20066 pts0 wins2 listsJonathan CapeHistoryClass, Poverty & Inequality+2
The Migrant Rain Falls in ReverseVinh Nguyen20256 pts0 wins2 listsUnknown imprintRace & EthnicityArt, Music & Performance+3
In the Shadow of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention in the United StatesAna Raquel Minian20254 pts1 wins1 listsVikingRace & EthnicityMigration & Diaspora+2
After Palmares: Diaspora, Inheritance, and the Afterlives of ZumbiMarc A. Hertzman20244 pts1 wins1 listsDuke University PressRace & EthnicityDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
The Unsettling of Europe: How Migration Reshaped a ContinentPeter Gatrell20194 pts1 wins1 listsBasic BooksHistoryImmigration, Refugees & Borderlands+3
Enduring Uncertainty: Deportation, Punishment and Everyday LifeInes Hasselberg20164 pts1 wins1 listsBerghahn BooksPolitics & GovernmentIntelligence, Secrecy & Surveillance+3
Anti-Imperial Metropolis: Interwar Paris and the Seeds of Third World NationalismMichael Goebel20154 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressHistoryEmpire & Colonialism+3
Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American DiasporaStephanie E. Smallwood20084 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistorySlavery & Emancipation+3
Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families under FascismAlexander Stille19934 pts1 wins1 listsTrafalgar Square PublishingHistoryHolocaust+2
A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of ChildrenHaley Cohen Gilliland20254 pts0 wins1 listsAvid Reader PressRace & EthnicityMigration & Diaspora+2
Black Meme: A History of the Images that Make UsLegacy Russell20244 pts0 wins1 listsVerso BooksRace & EthnicityAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
We’re AloneEdwidge Danticat20244 pts0 wins1 listsGraywolf PressSociety & CultureDisability & Difference+2
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror WorldNaomi Klein20234 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyTravel, Exploration & Place+2
Stranger FacesNamwali Serpell20204 pts0 wins1 listsTransit BooksSociety & CultureClass, Poverty & Inequality+1
The Pope Who Would Be King: The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern EuropeDavid I. Kertzer20184 pts0 wins1 listsRandom HouseHistoryMigration & Diaspora+2
Belonging: The Story of the Jews, 1492–1900Simon Schama20174 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryMigration & Diaspora+2
A Thousand Farewells: A Reporter's Journey from Refugee Camp to the Arab SpringNahlah Ayed20124 pts0 wins1 listsVikingJournalism & ReportageOceans, Rivers & Water+3
The Convert: A Tale of Exile and ExtremismDeborah Baker20124 pts0 wins1 listsGraywolf PressSociety & CultureMigration & Diaspora+1
Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East DivideJeffrey Goldberg20084 pts0 wins1 listsPicadorPolitics & GovernmentMigration & Diaspora+2
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew and the Heart of the Middle EastSandy Tolan20064 pts0 wins1 listsBloomsburyRace & EthnicityAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
The Orientalist: In Search of a Man Caught Between East and WestTom Reiss20064 pts0 wins1 listsVintage BooksBiographyTravel, Exploration & Place+2
Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory BirdsScott Weidensaul19994 pts0 wins1 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxNature & EnvironmentHousing, Cities & Urban Life+2
There Once Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of EishyshokYaffa Eliach19994 pts0 wins1 listsBack Bay BooksRace & EthnicityMigration & Diaspora+2
Beyond Individualism: How Social Demands of the New Identity Groups Challenge American Political andMichael J. Piore19954 pts0 wins1 listsHarvard University PressPolitics & GovernmentLgbtq History & Life+2
Fatheralong: A Meditation on Fathers, Sons, Race and SocietyJohn Edgar Wideman19944 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyMigration & Diaspora+2
Genie: An Abused Child’s Flight From SilenceRuss Rymer19934 pts0 wins1 listsHarperCollinsMemoir & AutobiographyMigration & Diaspora+2
Habits and the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American LifeRobert N. Bellah19864 pts0 wins1 listsUniversity of California PressSociety & CultureCivil Rights & Racial Justice+2
Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North AmericaKerby A. Miller19854 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryImmigration, Refugees & Borderlands+2
Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York CityNathan Glazer, Daniel Patrick Moynihan19634 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintRace & EthnicityHousing, Cities & Urban Life+2
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los AngelesMike Davis19904 pts0 wins1 listsVerso BooksHistoryMedia, Journalism & Public Opinion+2
Coming Into the CountryJohn McPhee19774 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintTravel & PlaceHousing, Cities & Urban Life+2
Crooked Teeth: A Queer Syrian Refugee MemoirDanny Ramadan20244 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyLgbtq History & Life+3
Homes: A Refugee StoryAbu Bakr Al-Rabeeah, Winnie Yeung20184 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyEssays & Cultural Criticism+2
The Black Room at Longwood: Napoleon’s Exile on Saint HelenaJean-Paul Kauffmann19994 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryBlack History & Culture+2
The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial IntelligencePetra Molnar20244 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintRace & EthnicityIntelligence, Secrecy & Surveillance+2
We Were Illegal: Uncovering a Texas Family's Mythmaking and MigrationJessica Goudeau20244 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyMigration & Diaspora+3
What I Remember, What I Know: The Life of a High Arctic ExileLarry Audlaluk20214 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyMigration & Diaspora+1
Shattered LandsSam Dalrymple20262 pts0 wins1 listsHarperCollinsPolitics & GovernmentOceans, Rivers & Water+3
Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A ReckoningPeter Beinart20252 pts0 wins1 listsKnopfPolitics & GovernmentMigration & Diaspora+2
Nothing More of This Land: Community, Power, and the Search for Indigenous IdentityJoseph Lee20252 pts0 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterRace & EthnicityMigration & Diaspora+2
On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of AmericaAbrahm Lustgarten20242 pts0 wins1 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxNature & EnvironmentHousing, Cities & Urban Life+3
The Shadow of the Empress: Fairy-Tale Opera and the End of the Habsburg EmpireLarry Wolff20232 pts0 wins1 listsStanford University PressHistoryEmpire & Colonialism+3
Deported AmericansBeth C. Caldwell20212 pts0 wins1 listsDuke University PressPolitics & GovernmentMigration & Diaspora+2
Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of TerrorVictor Sebestyen20182 pts0 wins1 listsVintage BooksBiographyMigration & Diaspora+3
The Feud: Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End of a Beautiful FriendshipAlex Beam20162 pts0 wins1 listsPantheonBiographyHousing, Cities & Urban Life+3
Where the Jews Aren’t: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia’s Jewish Autonomous RegionMasha Gessen20162 pts0 wins1 listsSchockenHistoryEurope & Russia+2
Orson Welles, Volume 3: One-Man BandSimon Callow20152 pts0 wins1 listsVikingBiographyFilm, Television & Popular Culture+3
Slaves of One Master: Globalization and Slavery in Arabia in the Age of EmpireMatthew S. Hopper20152 pts0 wins1 listsYale University PressHistorySlavery & Emancipation+3
The Real Mrs MiniverYsenda Maxtone Graham20022 pts0 wins1 listsJohn MurrayBiographyDisability & Difference+3
Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945George Sanchez19932 pts0 wins1 listsOxford University PressRace & EthnicityMigration & Diaspora+2
The Immobile EmpireAlain Peyrefitte, Jon Rothschild19892 pts0 wins1 listsVintage BooksHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
All Else Failed: The Unlikely Volunteers at the Heart of the Migrant Aid CrisisDana Sachs20242 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintSociety & CultureEssays & Cultural Criticism+2
The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian DiasporaWendy Pearlman20252 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintArts & CriticismMigration & Diaspora+2
A Return to Self: Excursions in ExileAatish Taseer20252 pts0 wins1 listsCatapultTravel & PlaceLatin America & the Caribbean+3
One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle over American Immigration, 1924-1965Jia Lynn Yang20202 pts0 wins1 listsW. W. NortonHistoryMigration & Diaspora+3
Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and ReturningElliot Ackerman20192 pts0 wins1 listsPenguin Publishing GroupWar & MilitaryOceans, Rivers & Water+3
The Ice at the End of the World: Greenland's Secret Past and Earth's Perilous FutureJon Gertner20192 pts0 wins1 listsRandom HouseNature & EnvironmentOceans, Rivers & Water+3
Cast Away: True Stories of Survival from Europe's Refugee CrisisCharlotte McDonald-Gibson20162 pts0 wins1 listsThe New PressPolitics & GovernmentLgbtq History & Life+3
The Familiarity of Strangers: The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern PeriodFrancesca Trivellato20092 pts0 wins1 listsYale University PressHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Rituals of Resistance: African Atlantic Religion in Kongo and the Lowcountry South in the Era of SlaveryJason R. Young20072 pts0 wins1 listsLSU PressRace & EthnicityLatin America & the Caribbean+2
Monarchs & Milkweed: A Migrating Butterfly, a Poisonous Plant, and Their Remarkable Story of CoevolutionAnurag Agrawal20170 pts0 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressScienceFood, Agriculture & Land+3
Europe after Empire: Decolonization, Society, and CultureElizabeth Buettner20160 pts0 wins1 listsCambridge University PressHistoryMigration & Diaspora+3
Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink: Jewish Illuminated ManuscriptsMarc Michael Epstein20150 pts0 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressArts & CriticismFood, Agriculture & Land+3
Gathering Together: The Shawnee People through Diaspora and Nationhood, 1600-1870Sami Lakomaki20140 pts0 wins1 listsYale University PressHistoryIndigenous History+3
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All awards · Topic: Migration & Diaspora · Sorted by score · 101 books · filtered