The Making of the Modern Refugee Paperback / softback
by Peter (Professor of Economic History, Professor of Economic History, University of Manchest Gatrell
Paperback / softback
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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from several disciplines and draws extensively upon oral testimony, eye-witness accounts, and film, as well as unpublished source material in the archives of governments, international organisations, and non-governmental organisations.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.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:336 pages, 9 black and white maps
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:16/07/2015
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- ISBN:9780198744474
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:336 pages, 9 black and white maps
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:16/07/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9780198744474
