. >> next from birmingham, alabama, an interview with warren st. john, author of "outcasts united."booktv visited birmingham as part of our cities tour explaining literary culture of eight different cities across the southeast. >> the foodies are a soccer team, refugees boys from 15 or more countries around the world that have experience conflict and they live outside of atlanta, georgia, a little town called clarkson. they are from mostly african countries but not entirely countries like liberia, burundi, sudan, but also in my book as a young boy from kosovo, bosnia, from iraq and afghanistan. they come through normal refugee reseller programs come united nations, and then they are passed through to the care of resettlement agencies that handle their relocation and help them get a foothold in this country. there are organizations like the international rescue committee, and other nongovernment organizations. >> how do those programs work exactly? >> basically the agencies get a stipend, or get a budget for refugee families, and the government admits them and and soren hansen over t