Further Reading

Memoirs and histories for readers who want to go deeper.

Memoirs by diplomats on this site

• Madeleine Albright, Prague Winter (2012). Her family's story through the Nazi occupation and the Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia.
• Madeleine Albright, Madam Secretary (2003). Her memoir, from refugee childhood to Secretary of State.
• Sichan Siv, Golden Bones (2008). His escape from the Khmer Rouge and his path to the United Nations.
• Eduardo Aguirre, From Immigrant to Ambassador (2024). A Pedro Pan child's path to the embassy in Madrid.

The journeys

• Anne Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (1997). A Hmong family in California and the clash of cultures in American medicine.
• Benson Deng, Alephonsion Deng, and Benjamin Ajak, They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky (2005). Three of the Lost Boys of Sudan tell their story.
• Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees (2017). Short stories about Vietnamese refugees and their families.

Oral histories

The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training (adst.org) holds thousands of oral histories with American diplomats, including several who arrived as refugees.