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The Making of the Modern Refugee
Peter Gatrell
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Description for The Making of the Modern Refugee
Paperback. 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 Num Pages: 336 pages, 9 black and white maps. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBLW; JFFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 233 x 21. Weight in Grams: 506.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198744474
SKU
V9780198744474
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-36
About Peter Gatrell
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Making of the Modern Refugee
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.
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