Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan, and Ecuador

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Title: Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan, and Ecuador
Author: Angelina Jolie
Year: 2003
Publisher: Pocket Books
253 pages

Jolie's journal entries on her visits to many countries as a representative of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees are, indeed, notes, not a well-constructed travelogue or sociological narrative. For this reason, they serve as an entry point for further explorations, not as a definitive source. To be clear, I think that the intention behind publishing them was to expose readers to the content on refugees and the human costs of conflict and poverty. It is interesting to consider Jolie's growing personal sophistication and writing skill as these chronological accounts unfold. A good introduction or training text on international and human rights concerns.