Forced displacement and the experiences of refugees, asylum seekers and otherwise forcibly displaced people became of increasing interest in the popular culture since 2015 with the European migrant crisis.
Books
Fiction
Refugee Tales: Volume II: 2 by Jackie Kay et al., 2017
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid, 2017
Refugee Tales, by Ali Smith et al., 2016
What Is the What by Dave Eggers, 2006
Refugee Boy by Benjamin Zephaniah, 2001
Children's books
Where Will I Live? by Rosemary McCarney, 2017
Stormy Seas. Stories of Young Boat Refugees by Mary Beth Leatherdale, 2017
Stepping Stones. A Refugee Family's Journey by Margriet Ruurs, 2016
Refugee by Alan Gratz, 2016
Poems
Sisters' Entrance by Emtithal Mahmoud, 2018
Non-Fiction
The New Odyssey: The Story of Europe's Refugee Crisis by Patrick Kingsley, 2017
Cast Away: Stories of Survival from Europe's Refugee Crisis by Charlotte McDonald-Gibson, 2017 Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System by Alexander Betts and Paul Collier, 2017 Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move by Reece Jones, 2017 A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea by Melissa Fleming, 2017 Refugee Stories: Seven personal journeys behind the headlines by Dave Smith, 2016 City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp by Ben Rawlence, 2016 The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria by Janine di Giovanni, 2016 Refugee Economies: Forced Displacement and Development by Alexander Betts et al., 2016 The Making of the Modern Refugee by Peter Gatrell, 2015 The Lightless Sky: My Journey to Safety as a Child Refugee, by Gulwali Passarlay, 2015 Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees by Caroline Moorehead, 2006 They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky by Judy A. Bernstein, 2005, is the story three of the Lost Boys of Sudan Escape From Manus, 2021 autobiography by Jaivet Ealom
Film
Drama
The Other Side of Hope by Aki Kaurismäki, 2017
Pawo by Marvin Litwak, 2016
Mediterranea by Jonas Carpignano, 2015
Ohthes by Panos Karkanevatos, 2015
Hope by Boris Lojkine, 2014
The Golden Dream by Diego Quemada-Díez, 2013
Le Havre by Aki Kaurismäki, 2011
In This World by Michael Winterbottom, 2002
Baran by Majid Majidi, 2001
Last Resort by Paweł Pawlikowski, 2000
Fantasy
Encanto by Jared Bush and Byron Howard, 2021
Documentary
Island of the Hungry Ghosts by Gabrielle Brady, 2018
Stop the boats by Simon V. Kurian, 2018
Watan by James L. Brown and Bill Irving, 2018
Human Flow by Ai Weiwei, 2017
Warehoused: The forgotten refugees of Dadaab by Asher Emmanuel and Vincent Vittorio, 2017 Refugee by Alexander J. Farrell, 2017 Re-Calais by Yann Moix, 2017 69 Minutes of 86 Days by Egil Håskjold Larsen, 2017 Hope Road by Tom Zubrycki, 2017 Sea Sorrow by Vanessa Redgrave, 2017 8 Borders, 8 Days by Amanda Bailly, 2017 Fire at Sea by Gianfranco Rosi, 2016 Ta'ang by Wang Bing, 2016 4.1 Miles by Daphne Matziaraki, 2016 Influx by Luca Vullo, 2016 The Art of Moving by Liliana Dulce Marinho de Sousa, 2016 Between Fences by Avi Mograbi, 2016 Stranger in Paradise by Guido Hendrikx, 2016 Rifles or Graffiti by Jordi Oriola Folch, 2016 Born in Syria by Hernán Zin, 2016 The Invisible City: Kakuma by Lieven Corthouts, 2016 Salam Neighbor by Chris Temple and Zach Ingrasci, 2015 Beats of the Antonov by Hajooj Kuka, 2014 On The Bride's Side by Antonio Augugliaro et al., 2014 Moving to Mars by Mat Whitecross, 2009 Lost Boys of Sudan by Megan Mylan and Jon Shenk, 2003
Short film
I am Rebecca by Eve Doherty and Kate McCaslin, 2017
I felt it too by Iamia Aboukheir, 2017
Only My Voice by Myriam Rey, 2017
Refugee by Joyce Chen and Emily Moore, 2016
Refugee by Adam Tyler, 2016
Lifestories: The Lost Boys of Sudan by J.D. Martin, 2008
TV series
Exodus: Our Journey was shown on BBC Two in 2017. It started with 3 episodes called Exodus: Our Journey to Europe and was followed by 3 episodes called Exodus: Our Journey Continues