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Making of the modern refugee /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gatrell, Peter
Format: Printed Book
Published: UK, OUP, 2013.
Edition:First edition.
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Online Access:http://TB4CZ3EN3E.search.serialssolutions.com/?sid=sersol&SS_jc=TC0000972685&title=The%20Making%20of%20the%20Modern%20Refugee
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 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
  • pt. 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, 1937-1950
  • pt. 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.