Ottoman Refugees, 1878-1939 - Migration in a Post-Imperial World

In the first half of the 20th century, throughout the Balkans and Middle East, a familiar story of destroyed communities forced to flee war or economic crisis unfolded. Often, these refugees of the Ottoman Empire - Christians, Muslims and Jews - found their way to new continents, forming an Ottoman diaspora that had a remarkable ability to reconstitute, and even expand, the ethnic, religious, and ideological diversity of their homelands. offers a unique study of a transitional period in world history experienced through these refugees living in the Middle East, the Americas, South-East Asia, East Africa and Europe. Isa Blumi explores the tensions emerging between those trying to preserve a world almost entirely destroyed by both the nation-state and global capitalism and the agents of the so-called Modern era.>

Product details

• Authors: Isa Blumi, Isa (Georgia State University Blumi
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.09.2013
• EAN: 9781472515360
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-1536-0
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; European History, Ottoman Empire, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Middle Eastern history, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum, Southeast Europe