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    Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town

    By Warren St. John

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    The extraordinary story of a refugee football team and the transformation of a small American town.

    Clarkston, Georgia, was a typical Southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement centre in the 1990s, becoming home to scores of families in flight from the world's war zones – from Liberia and Sudan to Iraq and Afghanistan. Suddenly Clarkston's streets were filled with women wearing the hijab, the smells of cumin and curry, and kids of all colours playing football in any open space they could find. Among them was Luma Mufleh, a Jordanian woman who founded a youth football team to unify Clarkston's refugee children and keep them off the streets. These kids named themselves the Fugees.

    Outcasts United follows a pivotal season in the life of the Fugees and their charismatic coach. Warren St. John documents the lives of a diverse group of young people as they miraculously coalesce into a band of brothers, while also drawing a fascinating portrait of a fading American town struggling to accommodate its new arrivals. At the centre of the story is fiery Coach Luma, who relentlessly drives her players to success on the football field while holding together their lives – and the lives of their families – in the face of a series of daunting challenges.

    This fast-paced chronicle of a single season is a complex and inspiring tale of a small town becoming a global community – and an account of the ingenious and complicated ways we create a home in a changing world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK
    Release dateFeb 6, 2014
    ISBN9780007380947
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    Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town
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    Warren St. John

    Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Warren St John is currently a reporter for the New York Times. He has also written extensively for The New Yorker, the New York Observer and Wired. He studied at Columbia University and lives in New York.

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    • 4/5
      This story takes place in a small town in Georgia. Conflict was and still is rampant around the world, where families lived in constant fear. This mismatched soccer team name eventually evolves to being called, The Fugees. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
      selected families to relocate to the United States The Fugues came from Congo, Burundi, Sudan, Liberia, Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq, among other countries. They are boys whose families were selected by the UNHCR for resettlement in a small town outside Atlanta called Clarkston. Most arrived with nothing but the clothes on their backs and already in debt – owing thousands of dollars to a government agency for the cost of their one-way plane tickets to America. Once in the U.S., resettled refugees are given just three months of assistance from the government before they’re on their own, left to do the best they can to build new lives in a strange land.

      This kind of transition would be difficult for anyone, but children and teenagers face special challenges. They are caught between worlds – no longer of the countries in which they were born, yet still separate and outside from the culture of their new home. They are outsiders at school, and at the same time, come under pressure from parents who see efforts to act or dress “American” as a repudiation of their native culture. Outside of school and their homes, the boys must also contend with pressure from the local street gangs who don’t hesitate to take advantage of the newcomers’ desire to belong.

      A remarkable woman who emigrated from Jordan named Luma has a burden for these boys and their families. And even though she is a "girl" she knows how to coach and can certainly play soccer. She organizes a team for these diverse boys, battling language barriers, lack of funding and racial discrimination. After all, how can families afford to buy soccer shoes when they don't even have money to put food on the table. At times, the book frustrated me as Luma and The Fugees, experience such hardships, failure and disappointment. I wanted everything to go smoothly for them, but this is not a work of fiction and problems abound. But Luma somehow had the personality and heart to perservere. She does not view herself as remarkable, but she made a difference in the lives of many people who would have simply been lost in the system. Luma is still doing so today.



    • 2/5
      The story gives the reader some insight to an immigrant's struggle to settle in a new country and culture.
    • 4/5
      The small Georgia town of Clarkston, outside Atlanta, went from being a small smouthern town to being a major spot for resettled refugees. From many countries. The population grew, the schools were faced with many students who didn't speak English, the refugees were settled into apartment blocks already inhabited by poor Americans and gang members. And the white old-timers were not all happy. At all.As these changes were occurring, a Jordanian immigrant and soccer coach (who came to the US to attend college, not as a refugee), drove through one day and was shocked at the population she saw walking around town and playing soccer. After some research, she decided to start a free soccer program for kid.This book chronicles the journey--the frustrating encounters with the mayor and town council, the sponsorship and promises from the nearby YMCA, the problems of dealing with troubled/frightened/overwhelmed kids and scared/exhausted parents, and the successes (big and small).
    • 3/5
      There is so much soccer in the book that it becomes tedious if you don't know (or care) about it. I found myself skipping those paragraphs describing game play and just scanning for the score to see if the Fugees won or lost that match. Luma, the coach, is an interesting, if not entirely likable character. I really enjoyed the stories of the players and their families and their reactions and adaptations to life in the U.S. A good editing would have improved the book immensely, I think. The call to social justice is lost in the maze of soccer details.
    • 5/5
      Outstanding storytelling in this nonfiction book for young readers. Does a great job weaving the life experiences of the boys together with Luma's life. I felt like the incident with Luma's arrest was left unresolved -- did she ever find out why she was pulled over? Was it just profiling? It certainly seemed to be. Altogether an incredibly inspiring story about an individual's ability to make a huge positive change in the world.
    • 5/5
      I was probably predisposed to love this book, but even if you don't love soccer, aren't interested in the psychology of basic human behavior and don't get choked up reading about the (almost unfathomable) hardships that people all over the world face-I still think this book will hold your attention. Not only is Warren St. John very readable, but stories of friendship, teammates and adolescent angst are just good subject matter. Handsdown-my current favorite.
    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed this book. It tells the story of a soccer team made up of refugees living in Clarkston, Georgia. The author struck a good balance of telling what was going on with the soccer team, giving general background information about refugee resettlement, and providing specifics about the reaction to resettlement in Clarkston. I really grew to love a lot of the boys on the team. Overall, it's a good read.
    • 5/5
      Such an incredible book. This book shows that despite ethnic, cultural, religious, etc. difference it is possible to come together and create something amazing. I hope to start dance outreach programs in schools, so this book was perfect for me... I was able to see how one woman made something out of what looked like nothing to many. I would recommend this book to fellow teachers or hopeful teachers because it serves as a reminder of how much of an impact we have, and our ability to make a difference.
    • 3/5
      This was an educational story about the experiences of refugees (especially children) in the United States.
    • 5/5
      I strongly recommend this book -- it really changed my perspective on the United States, immigration, and refugees. It's a remarkable story -- the author, a NY Times journalist, uses an all-refugee youth soccer team and its coach to examine the effects of refugee immigration on an American town. I learned a lot about how challenging it is to be a refugee, both practically and psychologically, plus I definitely was exposed to countries of the world -- like Congo, Bosnia, Liberia, and Burundi -- where there are terrible conflicts.

      Although I read this on my own initiative, I may recommend it to my book club -- it would be a great book to discuss.
    • 3/5
      Adaptation for young people about a soccer team made up refugee children in Georgia. Interesting, inspiring true story.
    • 4/5
      This a remarkable story of what one determined person can do to change what can be emotionally charged situation of integrating refugees into communties who are uncertain how to make such changes work. Somehow I had the young adult version of this story and while that is not a bad thing, the writing seemed a too simplified for me. Think the audlt story would make for better reading. December 2012
    • 4/5
      I read this for my book club, and as part of this year’s Roanoke Valley Reads program. The program is designed to increase reading and foster a sense of community, and is supplemented with several discussion programs across the valley. This book was a particularly good pick, because like Clarkston, Roanoke is a refugee resettlement community. I had no idea until I read this book.Overall, I thought this book was interesting and well-done. St. John shares with us a variety of refugee experiences, ranging from African civil and tribal wars to the war in Bosnia. Along the way, we learn a little about what started these conflicts, and how the refugees ended up that way. We also learn about a side of small-town politics that I’m sure the town of Clarkston wishes they didn’t have.But it’s not all about taking the side of the refugees over the "natives" of Clarkston. It’s obvious that the refugee resettlement program has a lot of problems, and many of the problems in Clarkston could have been eliminated if the program was better managed. Other problems are cultural, and are harder to overcome.There’s a lot of soccer talk in the book, but it’s easy to understand even for the uninitiated. Several of the people in the book club who didn’t know anything about soccer said they had no problem following what was going on.The only thing I thought the book was missing was a more well-rounded depiction of Luma. We get a good idea of her background, but eventually she becomes rather one-dimensional. She’s just "Coach". I can’t pinpoint exactly what else I would have liked to know, just that there was something missing.Several blog posts about this book and the Roanoke Valley Reads events can be found on the Roanoke Valley Reads web site.
    • 4/5
      I was drawn to this book for two reasons: the plight of refugees in the U.S. and soccer. I found this book to be an eye opener as well as heartwarming. The author did a good job of putting the book together and presenting the individual stories.
    • 4/5
      This was an interesting current issues, sociology-based book. Don't let the soccer (football, to us loyalists) title scare you from giving it a try. The more interesting parts of this book are how each of the characters--including the coach-- gets to small-town Georgia. Who knew that the South was such a harbour for refugees?
    • 3/5
      I found myself drawn into the stories of the refugee families, and the struggles they face. Soccer unities these boys, and their coach has done a remarkable job in her community. I read an ARC copy of the book, and there was no epilogue and I find myself wondering what happened later (I will be googling shortly :) ). I also am wondering about the girls of these families. Is there some group activity or outlet available to the girls in the area to unite them, and give them such a positive interaction with their community and new culture and neighbours?
    • 4/5
      With its personal stories of the refugees and their backgrounds, this book was so much more than I expected. St. John weaves together the stories of the boys, the progress of their football teams, and the journey of their coach, Luma Mufleh. It was humbling to read the accounts of their lives prior to immigrating to the U.S. At some points in the book, I wished there had been more about the boys and their families, and less about the details of the football games, but it all comes together to draw the reader in as the boys depend on each other and their lives become more intertwined.
    • 4/5
      Outcasts united is about a woman who grew up in the middle east, but was white. Her name was Luma. When she wanted to go to college she moved to America to a town called Clarkston. As the months went by, refugges from all over were sent to this Southern white towm. A lot of people who had lived in the town did not like it at all, and were rascist to many of these refugees. Many of the refugees were lonely, with little to no one speaking thier laguage in this area. Luma had played soccer all her life, and alos wanted to help these refugees acusstom to America and all its challenges. She orginizies a soccer team, somthing all refugees can relate to, and pools all of them into a multilingual, multicultural team that has to deal with rasicm from the town, and play in an all white league while trying to adjust to the new society around them.
    • 4/5
      I'm not into sports, and really know very little about soccer, but I finally read this after ending up with two copies: one from Early Reviewers, and one from KPCC's book club. It's really not about soccer, instead about how soccer was used to reach out to refugees from many countries who all ended up in an Atlanta suburb. Recommended.
    • 4/5
      This poignant story of a group of immigrant families who are resettled into an unwelcoming Georgia town is well worth reading. To address some of the needs of children who feel afloat and disoriented in a new nation, another immigrant, Luma Mulfed, organizes a group of soccer teams and thus the Fugees are born.The story is compeling in its description of adaptation, team building and bureaucratic indifference which present odds which are almost insurmountable. But organized sports has a unique way of unifying desparate boys and a determined coach in achieving a remarkable goal.I received an advance reading copy and I must add that though I have read several other ARCs, this one contained many errors in spelling, sentence structure and punctuation. I hope someone corrected the errors before publication!
    • 5/5
      What a splendid book! My book club read it, and it makes a great companion to a book we read a few months ago, Three Cups of Tea. They are entirely different stories, but share teaching what is happening in other parts of the world and in being uplifting stories of what people are doing to create positive change.It is the story of Luma Mufleh, who was born and grew up in a loving family in Jordan, yet a family that expected Luma to follow tradition. After coming to the United States to attend college, she did not return to Jordan, knowing that she could not be a part of the traditions. She wound up in metro Atlanta, Georgia, and while driving through Clarkston, a suburb, she saw a group of refugee boys playing soccer. She had been a soccer coach and became the coach to the refugee boys.Besides telling Luma's story, St. John tells the stories of many of the refugee families: the horrors from which they fled, and the painful adjustments to living in Clarkston, usually living in poverty in a high-crime area in a totally new culture. The author also tells the story of the older inhabitants of Clarkston, who saw their typical small Southern town change drastically with the influx of refugees from all over the world.Luma, with little compensation, became coach to three different boys' soccer teams, the Under 17s, the Under 15s, and the Under 13s. The teams took the name Fugees, short for refugees. Each had its unique challenges and strengths.Sports is not, generally, a subject I care about at all, which I blame on growing up in Alabama when Bear Bryant was God. And yet I thorougly enjoyed this book and its stories of people living with great challenges but making something strong and courageous out of them.Highly recommended.
    • 4/5
      I'm not a huge non-fiction fan, so when I can finish a non-fiction book relatively quickly - like I did this one - I know it's a good book! I was interested in this mainly because I have an adopted nephew from Brazil who is a great soccer player on a college scholarship now. I thought it would be interesting to read about this story of refugees banding together and playing soccer, learning about teamwork. A worthwhile read!
    • 5/5
      Outcasts United is a heartwarming story of strength, determination, and refugees' struggles. Jordanian Luma Mufleh, educated in the United States, gathers a group of rag-tag soccer players from war-torn countries and gives them much more than soccer training. The young men have seen horrors in their young lives, as their families escaped countries and dictators which brought untold sorrows to them. As the memories of fathers killed before their eyes, and brothers and sisters wrenched from the family, a longing for familiarity with their culture followed them in this new country and especially in this small southern town of Clarkston, Georgia. Luma reached out to them, as her family disowned her for staying in America. Her lessons were tough, but she taught the boys survival skills which were sorely needed. A bond of respect, love, and hard work united these strangers and slowly brought them a degree of peace and a adopted bond of family ties.Thanks to librarything and Spiegel&Grau for this arc.
    • 4/5
      The outcasts of the title are a group of boys from various countries who are placed as refugees in a small town outside of Atlanta. The only common thread between them is a love of soccer and the book tells the story of them, their families and their coach who herself is an immigrant to the US from Jordan. As to be expected they are perplexed by US culture and customs, their arrival in the small town is not welcomed by all.Soccer is the theme that binds the story together but it is not necessary to be a fan in order to enjoy this book. Apparently the book began as a series of articles in the NY Times and that shows in the structure of the story. For instance, some readers have commented that the tale ends abruptly and they would like to see a more appropriate closure.While I was reading this book, I kept thinking about Dave Eggers book "What is the What" about Atcuk Deng who also settles in Atlanta and the similarities in experiences faced by both the Fugees and Atcuk. These are probably, in the end, very similar to that of any other group of immigrants in the past to the US. The book is very recommended.
    • 3/5
      Really good book. Does have the feeling of compiled newspaper articles, but I enjoyed the inspiring story. (And I don't really enjoy inspiring stories.) If you like Three Cups of Tea, you will probably like this book.
    • 4/5
      I am a sucker for a refugee story. Given the dearth of immigrants now pouring in from War Zones throughout the world, I unfortunately have a lot to read. The story concerns a soccer team in a sleepy Southern town outside of Atlanta comprised of refugees from countries throughout the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans. It focuses primarily on the coach, an immigrant herself who refused to return to the traditional values of her wealthy Jordanian family, which I found interesting to a point. fI'd like to know more about the kids themselves, but it is still a story worth telling as well as reading.
    • 5/5
      This is a highly enjoyable book about the way one immigrant woman, Luma Mufleh, worked to develop a soccer program for refugee boys in Clarkston, Georgia. The players come from every corner of the world - Sudan, Afghanistan, Liberia, Kosovo, Iraq, and Bosnia - to name a few. Clarkston, GA has become a favorite resettlement area in Georgia for the United Nations High Commission on Refugees. Thus, the mixture from war-torn countries throughout the world. Luma happened to see some of the boys playing a pick-up game of soccer in the street and realized the potential for real teams - the Under-13, Under-15 and Under-17.Warren St.John has done an excellent job of getting close to Luma to understand where she is coming from as a coach, advisor and friend to the refugee families. He has also done nice work describing the boys on the teams and their particular situations.Strongly recommend for anyone interested in refugee resettlement or immigrant backgrounds. It is strong on information about soccer, but the reader doesn't need a strong background to get the most from the book.
    • 4/5
      Clarkston, Georgia: an Atlanta suburb, and a resettlement community for thousands of refugees from some of the most war-torn parts of the world. Outcasts United is the story of a youth soccer team (three teams, really) comprised of Clarkston's newest young residents. The teams, the Fugees, face nearly insurmountable odds. The players and their families have found themselves torn from home, in a foreign environment, with few resources. Backbreaking work schedules, few resources, and shell shock all haunt the resettled families of Clarkston. But many of the children from these families share a love of soccer. Under the direction of a dedicated coach, Luma Mufleh, a Jordanian woman looking to find her niche in the United States, the Fugees create a team, against seemingly insurmountable odds. The Fugees lack equipment and practice space, they also face significant opposition from the longtime residents of Clarkston, including the mayor and city council. Clarkston is clearly a town in transition, and one that is having a hard time handling that transition. In telling the story of Clarkston and the Fugees, St. John has crafted an engaging narrative that wraps hope and seeming hoplessness into a story in which its nearly impossible to not root for the kids. Throughout the book St. John remains sympathetic to all of the parties in the book. It's easy to cheer on the kids; the longtime residents of Clarkston are less sympathetic. Still, St. John does an admirable job of trying to understand the myriad of problems Clarkston's mayor, in particular, tries to manage as he deals with a growing population with diverse needs. This is a story about a community, but it is also important to note that this is a story about a soccer team too. For those who are not terribly interested in soccer (such as myself), I did find there to be quite a bit of discussion of the sport- the plays manuevers used during the games. This I did not care for quite as much, and found myself thumbing forward a few pages for most of the in-depth discussions of gametime. That said, there is still much here to interest the general reader of literary non-fiction. I was taken with the Fugees' story, and I am certain many other readers will be too.
    • 4/5
      Before reading Outcast United I never knew a town like Clarkston, Georgia existed. Of course I knew of refugees being relocated to the US, but I never imagined a small southern town being a destination for refugees from all over the world.Outcasts United is a wonderful story of friendship and hard work centered around a group of refugee children and their soccer teams. Even if you don't have much knowledge of soccer I think most people would find this story interesting and uplifting. Luma, the Fugees coach, gives an amazing amount of time and love to these kids in an effort to make them responsible young men. She comes across as a little harsh sometimes, but surprisingly, never as unlikeable.Interspersed between the stories of the kid's soccer games are the histories of some of the refugee families. While the stories, nationalities and circumstances are all different, there is the common theme of losing your entire life as you know it, and having to start over in a completely foreign place. Many of the families knew little or no English and most had few marketable job skills. Even with all these challenges, the families profiled are hardworking and are trying to make the best of their new situation.My one complaint about the book is that the ending is a bit abrupt. I think this is because of the ongoing nature of the story, but if left me wanting more information, which could be a good thing too...I really enjoyed this touching story and would highly recommend this one to soccer fans, memoir lovers and those interested in refugee stories.
    • 4/5
      Outcasts United is not really a book about soccer. Sure, soccer is the backdrop upon which the story is told, but the book is really about the refugee kids, their families, the town of Clarkston, and Coach Luma. It is about how a bunch of kids who spoke ten plus different languages formed a tight bond and great friendships because of their common love of soccer. It is about how Luma Mufleh came to the United States against the will of her wealthy Jordanian parents to do what was best for her, despite how difficult she would find that to be. It is about how so many families, from so many different war-torn or poverty-stricken countries all came to live in the same town, how these families dealt with the extreme culture shock and adapted to life in the United States, and how Luma’s amazing strength and generosity helped so many of these families adjust. It is about how the residents of Clarkston, Georgia dealt with all these new faces, languages, and cultures in their small (mostly white) town – and for some residents, how they simply weren’t able to deal with these changes.So much about this book fascinated me. I loved learning about the different circumstances that brought these families together in the United States, I loved learning about how they handled the huge changes they were forced into when they came to the U.S., and I loved reading about the camaraderie that developed between the boys on the team. Some of the boys had been taught from birth to hate people of certain nationalities, only to be faced with boys of these exact nationalities playing on their soccer team – and they had to find a way to get along, and more than that, think and behave as teammates. The story is ultimately a heartwarming one – nothing about these kids’ lives was easy, yet they were so successful in many ways (not JUST with soccer, although that’s definitely one of the ways). Again, I really liked Outcasts United. Highly recommended.