Refugee-ing / Skinning
by Nishi Chawla
Refugee-ing / Skinning is a powerful collection of twenty-two stories that gives voice to refugees and displaced people from across the world, illuminating lives shaped by war, persecution, poverty, and forced migration. Spanning countries including Ukraine, Yemen, Palestine, Afghanistan, Sudan, Kashmir, Haiti, Tibet, and beyond, these stories explore the emotional cost of exile alongside the extraordinary resilience of those struggling to rebuild their lives. Compassionate, timely, and deeply human, the collection challenges stereotypes and invites readers to see the refugee crisis not through headlines, but through individual lives and enduring hope.
Hardcover | 350 pages | 6 × 9 in | Paperback | 350 pages | 6 × 9 in | Digital | 350pages
Publication Date: October 5, 2026
Paperback ISBN 979-8-9932455-6-0
Hardcover ISBN 979-8-9960602-0-7
eBook ISBN 979-8-9960602-1-4
$34.95 (Hardcover) | $19.95 (Paperback) | $9.99 (Digital) |
About the Book
Refugee-ing / Skinning is a collection of twenty-two interconnected stories that humanizes the global refugee experience through unforgettable characters from Ukraine, Yemen, Palestine, Sudan, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Haiti, Tibet, and beyond. Exploring themes of displacement, identity, resilience, and belonging, the collection reveals the shared humanity that endures even in the face of war, persecution, exile, and loss.
About the Author
Dr. Nishi Chawla is a writer, playwright, poet, and academician whose body of work includes eleven plays, three novels, eight poetry collections, four award-winning art-house feature films, and two global poetry anthologies co-edited for Penguin Random House. A former tenured Professor of English at the University of Delhi with a doctorate from The George Washington University and postdoctoral research at Johns Hopkins University, she has taught English Literature for four decades. She is among the few Indian playwrights to have had two plays staged in Manhattan, and the third Indian poet invited to the U.S. Library of Congress's The Poet and the Poem program.
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Genre
Fiction / Short Stories / Refugees and Immigrants
BISAC Codes: FIC019000 FICTION / Literary, FIC029000 FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FIC134000 FICTION / Immigration & Emigration
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