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Informationen zum Autor Dawn Chatty is a social anthropologist with long experience in the Middle East. Displacement and Dispossession in the Modern Middle East is her most recent book. Previously she edited the thirty-six chapter Nomadic Societies in the Middle East and North Africa: Facing the 21st Century (2006). She is University Reader in Anthropology and Forced Migration at the Refugee Studies Centre in the Department of International Development, University of Oxford. Klappentext Traces the history of refugees and migrants within a reconstructed twentieth-century Middle East. Zusammenfassung Dawn Chatty's book traces the history of those who! as a reconstructed Middle East emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century! found themselves cut off from their homelands! refugees in a new world! with borders created out of the ashes of war and the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: forced migration in the contemporary Middle East: community cohesion in impermanent landscapes; 1. Dispossession and displacement within the contemporary Middle East: an overview of theories and concepts; 2. Dispossession and forced migration in the late Ottoman Empire: distinct cultures and separated communities; 3. Circassian, Chechnyan and other Muslim communities expelled from the Caucuses and the Balkans; 4. The Armenians and other Christians: evictions and massacres; 5. Palestinian dispossession and exodus; 6. Kurds dispossessed and made stateless; 7. Liminality and belonging: social cohesion in impermanent landscapes.
