The Making of the Modern Refugee

by Peter Gatrell

The Making of the Modern Refugee is a comprehensive history of global population displacement in the twentieth century.

The Making of the Modern Refugee

Author: Peter Gatrell

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780198744474

Page: 336

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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from several disciplines and draws extensively upon oral testimony, eye-witness accounts, and film, as well as unpublished source material in the archives of governments, international organisations, and non-governmental organisations.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.

The Making of the Modern Refugee

by Peter Gatrell

... 8).6 Seeking to understand the origins of population displacement is only one
element in The Making of the Modern Refugee. We also need to consider how
the modern refugee came to be construed as a 'problem' amenable to a 'solution'.

The Making of the Modern Refugee

Author: Peter Gatrell

Publisher: OUP Oxford

ISBN: 0191655694

Page: 312

View: 266

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.

The Unsettling of Europe

by Peter Gatrell

This is a landmark book on a subject that, decade by decade, will always haunt Europe. 'Peter Gatrell has produced a tour de force .

The Unsettling of Europe

Author: Peter Gatrell

Publisher: Penguin UK

ISBN: 0141984805

Page: 400

View: 172

Migrants have stood at the heart of modern Europe's experience, whether trying to escape danger, to find a better life or as a result of deliberate policy, whether moving from the countryside to the city, or between countries, or from outside the continent altogether. Peter Gatrell's powerful new book is the first to bring these stories together into one place. He creates a compelling narrative bracketed by two nightmarish periods: the great convulsions following the fall of the Third Reich and the mass attempts in the 2010s by migrants to cross the Mediterranean into Europe. The Unsettling of Europe is a new history of the continent, charting the ever-changing arguments about the desirability or otherwise of migrants and their central role in Europe's post-1945 prosperity. Gatrell is as fascinating on the giant movements of millions (such as the epic waves of German migration) to that of much smaller groups, such as the Karelians, Armenians, Moluccans or Ugandan Asians. Above all he has written a book that makes the reader deeply aware of the many extraordinary journeys taken by countless individuals in pursuit of work, safety and dignity, all the time. This is a landmark book on a subject that, decade by decade, will always haunt Europe.

The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia

by Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar

"Zamindar crosses political and conceptual boundaries to bring together oral histories of north Indian Muslim families divided between the two cities of Delhi and Karachi with extensive archival research in previously unexamined Urdu ...

The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia

Author: Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar

Publisher: Columbia University Press

ISBN: 9780231138468

Page: 288

View: 148

"Zamindar crosses political and conceptual boundaries to bring together oral histories of north Indian Muslim families divided between the two cities of Delhi and Karachi with extensive archival research in previously unexamined Urdu newspapers and government records of India and Pakistan. She juxtaposes the experiences of ordinary people against the bureaucratic interventions of both postcolonial states to manage and control refugees and administer their property. As a result, she reveals the surprising history of the making of the western Indo-Pak border, one of the most highly surveillanced in the world, which was instituted in response to this refugee crisis in order to construct national difference where it was the most blurred."--BOOK JACKET.

The Making of Modern Tibet

by A.Tom Grunfeld

This book attempts to reach beyond the polemics by considering the various historical arguments, using archival material from several nations and drawing conclusions focused on available documents.

The Making of Modern Tibet

Author: A.Tom Grunfeld

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 1317455843

Page: 370

View: 891

An account of Tibet and the Tibetan people that emphasises the political history of the 20th century. This book attempts to reach beyond the polemics by considering the various historical arguments, using archival material from several nations and drawing conclusions focused on available documents.

The Making of the Modern Sudan

by Sir Douglas Newbold

Our ' refugee ' Committee , after assessing tentage , hotel - space , feeding
facilities at bars and restaurants , and billeting and kitchen capacity of officials '
houses with marquees in the gardens , assessed the total personnel that
Khartoum ...

The Making of the Modern Sudan

Author: Sir Douglas Newbold

Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group

ISBN:

Page: 601

View: 300

Wuhan 1938

by Stephen R. MacKinnon

The book features photographs taken at that time, including a selection by renowned photojournalist Robert Capa, who was among the prominent writers and artists who came to witness events in Wuhan during its short, vibrant reign as China's ...

Wuhan 1938

Author: Stephen R. MacKinnon

Publisher: Univ of California Press

ISBN: 0520254457

Page: 182

View: 920

During 1938, a flood of Chinese refugees displaced by the Anti-Japanese War (1937-1945) converged on the central Yangzi valley tricity complex of Wuhan. This text tells the full story of Wuhan's defense and fall, and how the siege's aftermath led to new directions in the history of modern Chinese culture society, and politis.

Long Partition and the Making of Modern

by Vazira Fazila

Zamindar'S Ability To Weave Into A Single Narrative The National And The Local, The Administrative And The Personal, The Everyday And The Epochal, Is Truly Remarkable. This Is A Path Breaking Contribution To Modern South Asian Studies.

Long Partition and the Making of Modern

Author: Vazira Fazila

Publisher: Penguin Books India

ISBN: 9780670082056

Page: 288

View: 150

In This Remarkable Study Based On More Than Two Years Of Ethnographic And Archival Research, Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar Argues That The Combined Interventions Of The Two Postcolonial States Were Enormously Important In Shaping These Massive Displacements. She Examines The Long, Contentious, And Ambivalent Process Of Drawing Political Boundaries And Making Distinct Nation-States In The Midst Of This Historic Chaos. Zamindar Crosses Political And Conceptual Boundaries To Bring Together Oral Histories With North Indian Muslim Families Divided Between The Two Cities Of Delhi And Karachi With Extensive Archival Research In Previously Unexamined Urdu Newspapers And Government Records Of India And Pakistan. She Juxtaposes The Experiences Of Ordinary People Against The Bureaucratic Interventions Of Both Postcolonial States To Manage And Control Refugees And Administer Refugee Property. As A Result, She Reveals The Surprising History Of The Making Of The Western Indo-Pak Border, One Of The Most Highly Surveillanced In The World, Which Came To Be Instituted In Response To This Refugee Crisis, In Order To Construct National Difference Where It Was The Most Blurred. In Particular, Zamindar Examines The Muslim Question At The Heart Of Partition. From The Margins And Silences Of National Histories, She Draws Out The Resistance, Bewilderment, And Marginalization Of North Indian Muslims As They Came To Be Pushed Out And Divided By Both Emergent Nation-States. It Is Here That Zamindar Asks Us To Stretch Our Understanding Of Partition Violence To Include This Long, And In Some Sense Ongoing, Bureaucratic Violence Of Postcolonial Nationhood, And To Place Partition At The Heart Of A Twentieth Century Of Border-Making And Nation-State Formation. A Product Of Outstanding Historical-Ethnographic Research, Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar'S Book Tells Like No One Has Done Before The Maddeningly Tangled Story Of How, In The Years After The Partition Of 1947, India And Pakistan Actually Came To Separate Their Territories, Properties, And Peoples Into Two Sovereign States. Zamindar'S Ability To Weave Into A Single Narrative The National And The Local, The Administrative And The Personal, The Everyday And The Epochal, Is Truly Remarkable. This Is A Path Breaking Contribution To Modern South Asian Studies. Partha Chatterjee, Author Of The Politics Of The Governed: Reflections On Popular Politics In Most Of The World A Deeply Moving Account Of The Contingent Category Of The No-Questions-Asked Natural Citizen Within The Indian And Pakistani Nation-States, At Birth And In Their Long, Postnatal Condition. The Hurriedly Fixed National Boundaries Here Both Necessitate And Entice, Contain And Penalize Crossings. Zamindar Richly Documents How For Some Minority Groups Travel, Kinship Ties, And A National Longing Have To Be Continually Bared To Lay Claim To Citizenship Within A Multireligious Dispensation. An Unsettling Work That Breaks Through The Chalk Circles Circumscribing The Retellings Of Our Separate And National Pasts. Shahid Amin, Author Of Writing Alternative Histories: A View From India A Remarkable Exercise Of Ethno-History From Below. In Addition To Official Sources, Zamindar Has Collected Testimonies In Archives And Interviewed Survivors Of Partition To Offer An Original And Significant Chronicle Of The Nation-Making Process In Both India And Pakistan. Christophe Jaffrelot, Author Of The Hindu Nationalist Movement And Indian Politics, 1925 To The 1990S This Is A Significant And Path-Breaking Book And Is Likely To Become The Standard Study Of The Subject. It Will Be Cited Authoritatively Or Be Argued With For Some Time To Come. Aamir Mufti, Author Of Enlightenment In The Colony: The Jewish Question And The Crisis Of Postcolonial Culture

States of Separation

by Laura Robson

This is an original and clearly written work of important historical scholarship.

States of Separation

Author: Laura Robson

Publisher: Univ of California Press

ISBN: 0520292154

Page: 264

View: 671

"In the interwar Eastern Mediterranean, European colonial modes of establishing land claims and controlling populations converged with a recent Ottoman past featuring desperate and violent efforts at nationalization and an increasingly empowered Zionist settler colonialism. States of Separation explores how this confluence produced a series of internationally supported plans to move "minority" communities in, around, and out of the newly constituted states of Iraq, Syria, and Palestine under the aegis of the League of Nations - a massive demographic experiment that carried lasting political and social consequences for the twentieth century Middle East and the international order."--Provided by publisher.

Imperial Refuge

by Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky

Imperial Refuge revisits late Ottoman history through the lens of migration, holding the resettlement of Muslim refugees as critical to the making of the modern Balkans, Turkey, and the Levant.

Imperial Refuge

Author: Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky

Publisher:

ISBN:

Page:

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Imperial Refuge revisits late Ottoman history through the lens of migration, holding the resettlement of Muslim refugees as critical to the making of the modern Balkans, Turkey, and the Levant. In the half-century before World War I, about one million Muslims from Russia's North Caucasus region arrived in the Ottoman Empire. Most of them came as refugees fleeing war and persecution. This dissertation investigates the political economy of refugee resettlement in the Ottoman provinces of Danube, Sivas, and Damascus and traces refugee networks throughout the empire and beyond. The ability of refugees to tap into local economies underpinned Ottoman regional and imperial stability. State support, whether in financial aid, legal infrastructure, or transportation, was paramount to the economic success of agricultural refugee settlements. In the northern Balkans, for example, insufficient state subsidies and scarcity of land for refugees contributed to the outbreak of Muslim-Christian clashes and then to the 1877-78 Russo-Ottoman War, which ultimately ejected the Ottomans from much of the Balkans. In central Anatolia, a lack of state investment hindered the development of refugee villages, which led to economic stagnation of the region. In contrast, in the Levant, Circassian and Chechen refugees took advantage of the state-built Hejaz Railway and land reforms to create booming settlements. The refugees founded three of the four largest cities in modern Jordan, including the capital city of Amman. This bottom-up history of refugee migration and resettlement is based on archival materials from Turkey, Jordan, Bulgaria, Russia, Georgia, and the United Kingdom, including previously unknown private letters and refugee petitions.

Refugees in the Modern World

by Amin Saikal

The meeting agreed that the 1951 Geneva Convention would remain the basic
document for the definition of a refugee but other related documents as
appropriate' could be referred to.73 After Vietnamese dissent was dealt with, a
draft ...

Refugees in the Modern World

Author: Amin Saikal

Publisher:

ISBN:

Page: 125

View: 176

An overview of some of the major contemporary refugee problems, in particular in the Asia-Pacific region, including a discussion of how Australia should respond to these problems.

Body of Victim Body of Warrior

by Cabeiri deBergh Robinson

This book provides a fascinating look at the creation of contemporary Muslim jihadists.

Body of Victim Body of Warrior

Author: Cabeiri deBergh Robinson

Publisher: Univ of California Press

ISBN: 0520954548

Page: 342

View: 433

This book provides a fascinating look at the creation of contemporary Muslim jihadists. Basing the book on her long-term fieldwork in the disputed borderlands between Pakistan and India, Cabeiri deBergh Robinson tells the stories of people whose lives and families have been shaped by a long history of political conflict. Interweaving historical and ethnographic evidence, Robinson explains how refuge-seeking has become a socially and politically debased practice in the Kashmir region and why this devaluation has turned refugee men into potential militants. She reveals the fraught social processes by which individuals and families produce and maintain a modern jihad, and she shows how Muslim refugees have forged an Islamic notion of rights—a hybrid of global political ideals that adopts the language of human rights and humanitarianism as a means to rethink refugees’ positions in transnational communities. Jihad is no longer seen as a collective fight for the sovereignty of the Islamic polity, but instead as a personal struggle to establish the security of Muslim bodies against political violence, torture, and rape. Robinson describes how this new understanding has contributed to the popularization of jihad in the Kashmir region, decentered religious institutions as regulators of jihad in practice, and turned the families of refugee youths into the ultimate mediators of entrance into militant organizations. This provocative book challenges the idea that extremism in modern Muslim societies is the natural by-product of a clash of civilizations, of a universal Islamist ideology, or of fundamentalist conversion.

Syria

by Dawn Chatty

"The dispossession and forced migration of nearly 50 per cent of Syria's population has produced the greatest refugee crisis since World War II. This new book places the current displacement within the context of the widespread migrations ...

Syria

Author: Dawn Chatty

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 0190876069

Page: 224

View: 814

The dispossession and forced migration of nearly 50 per cent of Syria's population has produced the greatest refugee crisis since World War II. This new book places the current displacement within the context of the widespread migrations that have indelibly marked the region throughout the last 150 years. Syria itself has harbored millions from its neighboring lands, and Syrian society has been shaped by these diasporas. Dawn Chatty explores how modern Syria came to be a refuge state, focusing first on the major forced migrations into Syria of Circassians, Armenians, Kurds, Palestinians, and Iraqis. Drawing heavily on individual narratives and stories of integration, adaptation, and compromise, she shows that a local cosmopolitanism came to be seen as intrinsic to Syrian society. She examines the current outflow of people from Syria to neighboring states as individuals and families seek survival with dignity, arguing that though the future remains uncertain, the resilience and strength of Syrian society both displaced internally within Syria and externally across borders bodes well for successful return and reintegration. If there is any hope to be found in the Syrian civil war, it is in this history.

Unsettled

by Jordanna Bailkin

The aim of this book is not to redeem camps — nor, indeed, to condemn them. It is to refuse to ignore them. Unsettled speaks to all who are interested in the plight of the encamped, and the global uses of encampment in our present world.

Unsettled

Author: Jordanna Bailkin

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 0192545264

Page: 304

View: 122

Today, no one really thinks of Britain as a land of camps. Camps seem to happen 'elsewhere', from Greece, to Palestine, to the global South. Yet over the course of the twentieth century, dozens of British refugee camps housed hundreds of thousands of Belgians, Jews, Basques, Poles, Hungarians, Anglo-Egyptians, Ugandan Asians, and Vietnamese. Refugee camps in Britain were never only for refugees. Refugees shared a space with Britons who had been displaced by war and poverty, as well as thousands of civil servants and a fractious mix of volunteers. Unsettled: Refugee Camps and the Making of Multicultural Britain explores how these camps have shaped today's multicultural Britain. They generated unique intimacies and frictions, illuminating the closeness of individuals that have traditionally been kept separate — 'citizens' and 'migrants', but also refugee populations from diverse countries and conflicts. As the world's refugee crisis once again brings to Europe the challenges of mass encampment, Unsettled offers warnings from a liberal democracy's recent past. Through lively anecdotes from interviews with former camp residents and workers, Unsettled conveys the vivid, everyday history of refugee camps, which witnessed births and deaths, love affairs and violent conflicts, strikes and protests, comedy and tragedy. Their story — like that of today's refugee crisis — is one of complicated intentions that played out in unpredictable ways. The aim of this book is not to redeem camps — nor, indeed, to condemn them. It is to refuse to ignore them. Unsettled speaks to all who are interested in the plight of the encamped, and the global uses of encampment in our present world.

Forced Migration and Global Processes

by International Association for the Study of Forced Migration. International Conference

The Journal of Modern African Studies 5 , no . 1 ( 1967 ) : 13 – 51 . Kohoye , E . ,
Chair , Mugombe Village . Interview with the author , Mugombe , Feb . 25 , 2000 .
Kok , W . “ Self - Settled Refugees and the Socio - Economic Impact of their ...

Forced Migration and Global Processes

Author: International Association for the Study of Forced Migration. International Conference

Publisher:

ISBN: 9780739112755

Page: 416

View: 997

Papers presented at the 8th Biennial International Conference of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM), held in January 2003 in Chiang Mai, Thailand in cooperation with the Asian Research Centre for Migration, Chulalongkorn University

Immigration and Refugee Law and Policy

by Stephen H. Legomsky

See Mai Ngai , Impossible Subjects : Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern
America ( 2004 ) ; Leti Volpp , Book Review , Impossible Subjects : Illegal Aliens
and the Making of Modern America , 103 Michigan L . Rev . 1595 ( 2005 ) .

Immigration and Refugee Law and Policy

Author: Stephen H. Legomsky

Publisher:

ISBN:

Page: 78

View: 857

The 2007 Supplement covers the vital developments in immigration and refugee law and policy since the publication of the Fourth Edition's new cases, legislative action, regulations, scholarly advances, and political debate. Among the highlights: Developments on material support for terrorist organizations The Supreme Court's decision in Lopez v. Gonzales on drug crimes as aggravated felonies Judicial criticisms of the removal process, immigration judges, and the BIA Developments on judicial review of removal orders New requirements for establishing social group asylum claims Recent developments on asylum claims based on coercive population controls

Women and Nationalism in the Making of Modern Greece

by Demetra Tzanaki

The same year a Refugee Settlement Commission was created under the aegis
of the Patriotic Association of Greek Women , the National Council of Greek
Women , the Socialist Association of Greek Women and the Ministry of Public
Health ...

Women and Nationalism in the Making of Modern Greece

Author: Demetra Tzanaki

Publisher: St. Antony's

ISBN:

Page: 234

View: 471

This book reveals how the national idea in nineteenth century Greece helped women to develop an alternate vision of female politics, history, and citizenship. Through a discussion of fascinating materials, reflecting contemporary beliefs and ideas, this innovative study reveals how notions of citizenship were determined and explores the long process through which ideas and beliefs shaped both societies and individual identities.

Making of a New Space Refugees in West Bengal

by Jhuma Sanyal

Jatindra Mohan Dutta , " Refugee Statistics Of West Bengal " , The Modern
Review , Vol . 86 , 1949 . 5. Ritwik Ghatak , " An Interview With Chitrabikshan " ,
Chitrabikshan , Annual No. 1975 . 6. Ritu Menor / Kamala Bhasin , " Recovery ,
Rupure ...

Making of a New Space Refugees in West Bengal

Author: Jhuma Sanyal

Publisher:

ISBN:

Page: 249

View: 627

This Book Examines The Coming Of The Refugees In West Bengal In The Year 1947 And Their Efforts To Make A Space For Themselves In Their New Found Homeland, Till The Year 1955. It Is An Effort Towards A More Human Understanding Of Man-Made Catastrophe Which Reshaped The Destiny Of Millions.

Franklin D Roosevelt and the Making of Modern America

by Allan M. Winkler

Finally it took the refugees back to Europe where they faced a grim future . In
early 1944 , Treasury officials finally documented the systematic refusal of the
State Department to help in any way in a “ Report to the Secretary on the
Acquiescence ...

Franklin D Roosevelt and the Making of Modern America

Author: Allan M. Winkler

Publisher: Pearson College Division

ISBN:

Page: 228

View: 450

This clear and concise biography of FDR for the Library of American Biography series immerses students in both the personal and political life of one of the twentieth century's most important figures,during whose presidency the country experienced two of its severest crises: The Great Depression and World War II. Paperback, brief, and inexpensive, each of the titles in theLibrary of American Biography series focuses on a figure whose actions and ideas significantly influenced the course of American History and national life. In addition, each biography relates the life of its subject to the broader themes and developments of the times. This text incorporates the latest scholarship and draws upon the longer, far more extensive studies of Roosevelt's life and times, but makes the story accessible to students in both survey and upper division courses in American history.