Human Capital - A History of Putting Refugees to Work

HOW GLOBAL HUMANITARIANISM TURNS REFUGEES INTO CHEAP LABOR

List of contents

Introduction: Refugees, Workers

1. What’s a Refugee Regime? The Origins of Mass Displacement Policy
2. Turning a Profit: Refugee Policy at the League of Nations
3. Colonial Workers: Expanding the Refugee Regime
4. From Europe to America: Refugees and the Politics of "Overpopulation"
5. Zionism Goes Global: Refugees and Roosevelt’s M Project
6. Workers of Another World: Soviet Resettlement Policy
7. Refugees versus "Palestine Refugees": Race and the Postwar International Regime
8. The Politics of Confinement: Refugee Aid in the Age of Decolonization
9. Containing Labor: Refugees, Migrants, SEZs

Afterword: Workers, Refugees

Acknowledgements
Notes
Index

About the author

Laura Robson is the Oliver-McCourtney Professor of History at Penn State University and a recent Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. She has written and edited five books on Middle Eastern and global history, including most recently The Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle East (2020) and Partitions: A Transnational History of Twentieth Century Territorial Separatism (with Arie Dubnov, 2019). She is co-founder and co-editor of StatelessHistories.org.

Summary

HOW GLOBAL HUMANITARIANISM TURNS REFUGEES INTO CHEAP LABOR

Product details

• Authors: Laura Robson, Robson Laura
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.11.2023
• EAN: 9781804290217
• ISBN: 978-1-80429-021-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Globalization, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, HISTORY / World, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Immigration, Labour / income economics, Labour Economics, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum