Making of the Modern Refugee.

This title offers a comprehensive history of global population displacement in the 20th century, and provides a new analytic approach to the subject by exploring its causes, consequences and meanings.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gatrell, Peter
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Scholarship Online, 2013.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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; 5. Midnight's Refugees?: Partition and its Aftermath in India and Pakistan
  • 6. War and Population Displacement in East Asia, 1937-1950PART 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; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z