9780198744474-0198744471-The Making of the Modern Refugee

The Making of the Modern Refugee

ISBN-13: 9780198744474
ISBN-10: 0198744471
Edition: Reprint
Author: Peter Gatrell
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 336 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780198744474
ISBN-10: 0198744471
Edition: Reprint
Author: Peter Gatrell
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 336 pages

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The Making of the Modern Refugee (ISBN-13: 9780198744474 and ISBN-10: 0198744471), written by authors Peter Gatrell, was published by Oxford University Press in 2015. With an overall rating of 4.3 stars, it's a notable title among other World History (Emigration & Immigration, Administrative Law, Sociology) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Making of the Modern Refugee (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used World History books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $3.99.

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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 refugees as a 'problem' embedded itself in the minds of policy-makers and the public, and poses a series of fundamental questions about the nature of enforced migration and how it has shaped society throughout the twentieth century across a broad geographical area - from Europe and the Middle East to South Asia, South-East Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa. Wars, revolutions, and state formation are invoked as the main causal explanations of displacement, and are considered alongside the emergence of a twentieth-century refugee regime linking governmental practices, professional expertise, and humanitarian relief efforts.

This new study rests upon scholarship from several disciplines and draws extensively upon oral testimony, eye-witness accounts, and film, as well as unpublished source material in the archives of governments, international organisations, and non-governmental organisations. The Making of the Modern Refugee explores the significance that refugees attached to the places they left behind, to their journeys, and to their destinations - in short, how refugees helped to interpret and fashion their own history.

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