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Defectors

This heading may be subdivided geographically to indicate the country of origin and/or the destination of the defectors.

See also what's at your library, or elsewhere.

• Political refugees

• Defectors -- Korea (North)

• Defectionists
• Turncoats

• A Prison Without Bars: Refugee and Defector Testimonies of Severe Violations of Freedom of Religion or Belief in North Korea (in English and Korean; 2008), by United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (PDF at uscirf.gov)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Refugees: Anarchy or Organization? (New York: Random House, c1938), by Dorothy Thompson, contrib. by Hamilton Fish Armstrong (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Homesick Million: Russia-out-of-Russia (Boston: The Stratford Co., c1933), by William Chapin Huntington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Admission of German Refugee Children: Hearings Before the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, House of Representatives, Seventy-Sixth Congress, First Session on H.J. Res. 165 and H.J. Res. 168, Joint Resolutions to Authorize the Admission to the United States of a Limited Number of German Refugee Children, May 24, 25, 31, and June 1, 1939 (Washington: GPO, 1939), by United States House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Jewish Refugee Problem; and The Egregious Gentile Called to Account (New York: League for Industrial Democracy, c1939), by Bruce Bliven and Grover Cleveland Hall (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Why Europe Leaves Home: A True Account of the Reasons Which Cause Europeans to Overrun America, Which Lead Russians to Rush to Costantinople and Other Fascinating and Unpleasant Places, Which Coax Greek Royalty and Commoners Into Strange Byways and Hedges, And Which Induce Englishmen and Scotchmen to Go Out at Night (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1922), by Kenneth Lewis Roberts
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Guide to Materials for Teaching English to Refugees (New York: Committee for Refugee Education, 1940), by Fanne Aronoff, Gilbert Convers, and Nora Hodges (page images at HathiTrust)

• Survival Migration: Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, c2013), by Alexander Betts (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Press)

• "Who's Living In My House?" Obstacles to the Safe Return of Refugees and Displaced People (1997), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

• In Search of Safety: The Forcible Displaced and Human Rights in Africa (1997), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

• The Tempest, by William Shakespeare (multiple editions)

• The Far Country (c1952), by Nevil Shute (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Refugee Facts: A Study of the German Refugee in America (Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee, 1939), by American Friends Service Committee
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Common Rights and Expectations: Primary International Treaties Protecting The Rights of All People, by United Nations, ed. by John Bart Gerald (HTML at nightslantern.ca)

• Fear, Flight and Forcible Exile: Refugees in the Middle East (1997), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

• Refugee Women at Risk: Unfair U.S. Laws Hurt Asylum Seekers (New York: Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, c2002), by Eleanor Acer (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• The Sanctuary City: Immigrant, Refugee, and Receiving Communities in Postindustrial Philadelphia (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2022), by Domenic Vitiello (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Prohibited Persons: Abuse of Undocumented Migrants, Asylum-Seekers, and Refugees in South Africa, by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (HTML at hrw.org)