Spring 2007 International Studies Program Seminar:

REFUGEES IN AN AGE OF CATASTROPHE

 

 

Required Books (Available at Chicago Textbooks on Taylor Street):

Samantha Power, "A Problem From Hell": America in the Age of Genocide. Basic Books, 2002.

Caroline Moorehead, Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees, Picador, March 21, 2006.

Fauziya Kassindja, Do they Hear You When You Cry, Delta, 1999.

Mark Bixler, The Lost Boys of Sudan: An American Story of the Refugee Experience, University of Georgia Press, 2005. 

 

Course Readings:

 

Readings Available Online:

Impact of Armed Conflict on Children

Refugees and AIDS: What the Humanitarian Community Should Do?

Convention Related to the Status of Refugees - 1951

Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa (OAU Refugee Convention) 1969 Africa Union

 

 

Professor Lynette A. Jackson
Gender and Women's Studies Program (MC 360)
Suite 1230, University Hall
601 South Morgan Street
Chicago, Illinois 60607-7107