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A comprehensive history of global population displacement in the 20th century.
List of contents
- Preface and acknowledgements
- List of maps and tables
- Introduction: The Making of the Modern Refugee
- Part 1: Empires of Refugees
- 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 2: Mid-Century Maelstrom
- 3: Europe Uprooted: Refugee Crises and 'Durable Solutions' at Mid-Century
- 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
- Part 3: Refugees in the Global Cold War and its Aftermath
- 7: 'Villages of Discipline': the Cold War and Refugees in South-East Asia
- 8: 'Long Road': Africa's Refugees, Decolonisation, and 'Development'
- 9: 'Some Kind of Freedom': Refugees, Homecoming, and Refugee Voices in Contemporary History
- Conclusion: Refugees and their History
- Further Reading
About the author
Peter Gatrell was educated at the University of Cambridge. In 1976 he joined the University of Manchester where he is currently Professor of Economic History and affiliated to new Humanitarian and Conflict Research Institute. He teaches courses on refugees in modern world history, Russian economic and social history, the cultural history of war, and the history of humanitarianism. He is the author of several books including The Tsarist Economy, 1850-1917 (1986), A Whole Empire Walking: Refugees in Russia during World War 1 (1999), and Free World? The campaign to save the world's refugees, 1956-1963 (2011).
Summary
Offers a comprehensive history of global population displacement in the twentieth century, and provides a new analytic approach to the subject by exploring its causes, consequences, and meanings
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a wise and complex history ... The wisdom of The Making of the Modern Refugee is rooted in Gatrell's able adoption of a dispassionate and straightforward perspective that nonetheless explicitly recognizes the trauma of loss for refugees ... a key book that should light the way for more work on displacement and other forced migrations.
