The Embrace Resource Library is housed in our office and can be borrowed from by all Embrace members at no cost. It includes journals, reports, books and videos relating to the areas of interest of EMBRACE.

The following are a selection of materials now available from the resource library:

No longer Strangers: Cultural Integration in Church and Society in Ireland
Edited by Bernard Treacy OP with Alan Martin and Tony Walsh.
The contributors to No Longer Strangers examine questions concerning the experience of migration, what it means for the migrants, what it means for host communities, and what it can mean for a deeper mutual understanding within the human family.
Publisher: Dominican Publications 2006
ISBN: 1-905604-05-X

Local People Global Faiths
This book provides an introduction to the origins, beliefs, customs, worship and festivals of the Sikh, Jewish and Hindu faiths, on a local as well as global scale. Written by Stranmillis College lecturers James Nelson and Norman Richardson, in conjunction with the Northern Ireland Inter-Faith Forum and with contributions from members of our local faith communities, it is the first of its nature to be designed and written from a specifically local context. Created especially for Key Stage 3 RE students, relevant classroom activities are also included throughout, enabling students to explore and identify with what they have learnt.
Paperback 64 pages (June 30, 2005)
Publisher: Colourpoint Books
ISBN: 1904242324

A Place of Refuge – a positive approach to asylum seekers and refugees in the UK
This carefully researched report examines the claims made against refugees – that they are lazy, uneducated or involved in criminal activity – and uses statistical evidence to show that these claims are largely unfounded. It explains the legal and factual basis of the asylum system and highlights the positive contribution that refugees make to the UK. The book includes practical suggestions for action at a local and national level along with useful contacts and resources.
Paperback 80 pages (April 4, 2005)
Publisher: Church House Publishing
ISBN: 071514071X

Afraid to Leave, Afraid to Stay
This resource toolkit consists of a dual language booklet and an online toolkit. The booklet contains stories from refugees alongside stories from the life of Jesus. The English text appears below the same stories in the asylum seeker’s own language. It is available in Somali, Farsi, Turkish, and Albanian, and comes with a user guide so that it can be used as an informal counselling tool. In the online toolkit there are fact sheets on the languages used and the countries where they are spoken. There’s information on asylum seekers, the process of seeking asylum, and lots of ideas for getting involved in local asylum communities.
Booklet
Publisher: Lifewords

Entertaining Angels
Based on the theme of hospitality, Geoffrey Duncan’s new book, Entertaining Angels is a wonderful anthology of prayer, poems, stories and anecdotes. Much of the material relates directly to asylum seekers and refugees.
Paperback 304 pages (July 31, 2005)
Publisher: Canterbury Press
ISBN: 1853116424

Inter-cultural Insights, Christian Reflections on Racism, Hospitality and Identity from the Island of Ireland
Produced by the All-Ireland Churches’ Consultative Meeting on Racism/Irish Inter-Church Meeting, this booklet provides 16 short reflections which offer fresh insight into scripture and highlight personal experiences of racism, perspectives on the challenge of identity and difference, and the need to provide hospitality and to ‘welcome the stranger’. This booklet can be borrowed from the resource library, or free copies can be obtained from the EMBRACE office or downloaded in pdf format here InterCultural Insights