Making of the Modern Refugee

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.

• | Author: Peter Gatrell
• | Publisher: OUP Oxford
• | Publication Date: Nov 01, 2013
• | Number of Pages: 326 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 0199674167
• | ISBN-13: 9780199674169