|
Product Description
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from several disciplines and draws extensively upon oral testimony, eye-witness accounts, and film, as well as unpublished source material in the archives of governments, international organisations, and non-governmental organisations.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.
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
- The Big Gamble: The Migration of Eritreans to Europe
- Seeing Like a Feminist
- The Immigrant Threat: The Integration of Old and New Migrants in Western Europe since 1850 (Studies of World Migrations)
- Displacement and Dispossession in the Modern Middle East (The Contemporary Middle East)
- The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (Oxford Handbooks)
- Refuge: Rethinking Refugee Policy in a Changing World
- The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees
- The Age of Migration, Fifth Edition: International Population Movements in the Modern World
- Shantytown Kid
- Go, Went, Gone
*If this is not the "The Making of the Modern Refugee" product you were looking for, you can check the other results by clicking this link. Details were last updated on Dec 25, 2024 01:09 +08.