ISBN:
9780191655692
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 312 Seiten)
Parallel Title:
Print version Making of the modern refugee
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Gatrell, Peter, 1950 - The making of the modern refugee
DDC:
305.9069140904
Keywords:
Refugees History 20th century
;
Flüchtling
;
Displaced Person
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Geschichte
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Emigration and immigration
;
Refugees
;
Electronic books
;
Erde
;
Flüchtling
;
Flüchtlingspolitik
;
Humanitäre Hilfe
;
Internationale Politik
;
Internationaler Vergleich
;
Geschichte 1900-2000
Abstract:
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 enforcedmigration 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 consideredalongside 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from several disciplines and draws extensively upon oral testimony, eye-witness accounts, and film, as well as unpublished source material in the archives of governments, international organisations, and non-governmental organisations.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 andfashion their own history.
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; List of Maps and Tables ; Abbreviations ; Introduction: The Making of the Modern Refugee ; PART I: EMPIRES OF REFUGEES ; Introduction ; 1. Crucibles of Population Displacement Before and During the Great War ; 2. Nation-states and the Birth of a 'Refugee Problem' in Inter-war Europe ; PART II: MID - CENTURY MAELSTROM ; Introduction ; 3. Europe Uprooted: Refugee Crises at Mid-Century and 'Durable Solutions' ; 4. 'Nothing Except Commas': Jews, Palestinians, and the Torment of Displacement
Description / Table of Contents:
5. Midnight's Refugees?: Partition and its Aftermath in India and Pakistan ; 6. War and Population Displacement in East Asia, 1937 - 1950 ; PART III: REFUGEES IN THE GLOBAL COLD WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH ; Introduction ; 7. 'Villages of Discipline': Revolutionary Change and Refugees in South-East Asia ; 8. 'Long Road': Africa's Refugees, Decolonization, and 'Development' ; 9. 'Some Kind of Freedom': Refugees, Homecoming, and Refugee Voices in Contemporary History; Conclusion: Refugees and their History; Further Reading; Index; A ; B
Description / Table of Contents:
C , D ; E ; F ; G ; H ; I ; J ; K ; L ; M ; N ; O ; P ; Q ; R ; S ; T ; U ; V ; W ; X ; Y ; Z
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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