ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes the results of field work on refugee and exile publishing in certain Western European countries. Migration has implications for the cultural, political, legal, and economic conditions and sometimes even the military postures of both the immigrant groups and the host countries. The chapter explains Surinamese publishing in the Netherlands and Afghan and Iranian refugee publishing in West Berlin and Switzerland. The literature of Third World migrants in Western Europe is instance of publishing existing outside the traditional geographic guidelines for selection used by research libraries. There are many ways of studying the phenomenon of expatriate communities of which the refugee community is a subset. The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is conspicuous in collecting facts and figures pertaining to the world’s refugees. To discover what institutions exist among the refugee groups themselves for purposes of research and documentation, and which of these are likely to supply information concerning refugee publishing to American libraries.
