Author Mark Haddon has given his support to a new book detailing the experiences of asylum seekers arriving in Oxford. How the World came to Oxford: Refugees Past and Present features the stories ...

ASYLUM, by Umberto Nicola Nicoletti. (Rizzoli, $80.) Nicoletti captures the dignity and pain of L.G.B.T.Q. asylum seekers in these glossy monochrome portraits, accompanied by searing anonymous ...

Behrouz Boochani has lived in detention on Manus for five years. He tells NPR about the book he wrote using WhatsApp that tells the story of his failed attempt to flee Iran for asylum in Australia.

Iranian-Kurdish writer and asylum seeker Behrouz Boochani won the 2019 Victorian Prize for Literature for a book he wrote through WhatsApp texts over five years while living in a Papua New Guinea ...

The "Death of the Asylum" is detailed in Barbara Taylor's beautiful memoir through her personal experience of breaking down in 1981, ending up in Friern in 1985 and being formally discharged from ...

For the world’s most vulnerable, protection in the United States has all but disappeared. Wait times for asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border that already seemed indefinite now seem impossible.

Alcoholism, narcotics and psychoanalysis in memoir form. The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times by Barbara Taylor (Viking, £18.99) While writing her PhD in the late 70s, Barbara Taylor, ...