The Making of the Modern Refugee
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 16 July 2015
- ISBN 9780198744474
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages330 pages
- Size 234x157x18 mm
- Weight 506 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 9 black and white maps 0
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Short description:
Offers a comprehensive history of global population displacement in the twentieth century, and provides a new analytic approach to the subject by exploring its causes, consequences, and meanings
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The Making of the Modern Refugee is a comprehensive history of global population displacement in the twentieth century. It takes a new approach to the subject, exploring its causes, consequences, and meanings. History, the author shows, provides important clues to understanding how the idea of refugees as a 'problem' embedded itself in the minds of policy-makers and the public, and poses a series of fundamental questions about the nature of enforced migration and how it has shaped society throughout the twentieth century across a broad geographical area - from Europe and the Middle East to South Asia, South-East Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa. Wars, revolutions, and state formation are invoked as the main causal explanations of displacement, and are considered alongside the emergence of a twentieth-century refugee regime linking governmental practices, professional expertise, and humanitarian relief efforts.
This new study rests upon scholarship from several disciplines and draws extensively upon oral testimony, eye-witness accounts, and film, as well as unpublished source material in the archives of governments, international organisations, and non-governmental organisations. The Making of the Modern Refugee explores the significance that refugees attached to the places they left behind, to their journeys, and to their destinations - in short, how refugees helped to interpret and fashion their own history.
Peter Gatrell provides an in depth source for not only historians and researchers in related interdisciplinary fields such as migration and refugee studies, but also for anyone interested attempting to develop a better understanding of population displacement and refugeedom from a historical viewpoint. In this sense, the book makes a significant contribution as an in-depth history of the modern refugee.
Table of Contents:
Preface and acknowledgements
List of maps and tables
Introduction: The Making of the Modern Refugee
Part 1: Empires of Refugees
Crucibles of Population Displacement before and during the Great War
Nation-states and the Birth of a 'Refugee Problem' in Inter-war Europe
Part 2: Mid-Century Maelstrom
Europe Uprooted: Refugee Crises and 'Durable Solutions' at Mid-Century
'Nothing Except Commas': Jews, Palestinians, and the Torment of Displacement
Midnight's Refugees? Partition and its Aftermath in India and Pakistan
War and Population Displacement in East Asia, 1937-1950
Part 3: Refugees in the Global Cold War and its Aftermath
'Villages of Discipline': the Cold War and Refugees in South-East Asia
'Long Road': Africa's Refugees, Decolonisation, and 'Development'
'Some Kind of Freedom': Refugees, Homecoming, and Refugee Voices in Contemporary History
Conclusion: Refugees and their History
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