Refugee voices in modern global history : reckoning with refugeedom / Peter Gatrell, Katarzyna Nowak, Lauren Banko, Anindita Ghoshal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gatrell, Peter, author.

Nowak, Katarzyna (Researcher), author.

Banko, Lauren, author.

Ghoshal, Anindita, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refugees--History.

Refugees.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

Across modern history, refugees have articulated their experiences and wishes against the backdrop of mass displacement brought about by world war, civil war, revolution, population exchange, decolonisation, and state formation. Men and women displaced in different sites, at different times and from different backgrounds played for high stakes: they deliberated about what to say and to whom, and they sought, expected and generated a response from international organisations and other actors. Refugee Voices in Modern Global History places refugees at the centre of modern history. It demonstrates how ordinary refugees understood their experiences and engaged with institutions that sought to resolve their predicament. It asks how, to whom, and in what circumstances refugees spoke of the emotional impact of displacement and how they expressed themselves politically as well as personally. It shows refugees to have consistently exercised agency. By adopting the term 'refugeedom' the authors show how the voices and perspectives of refugees can be incorporated alongside the power dynamics associated with the multiple incarnations of the refugee regime that 'managed' refugees and articulated 'solutions'. Extensive archival research across three continents makes it possible to explain in comparative terms the significance attached to the encounters between refugees and officials in modern Europe, South Asia, the Middle East, East Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa. The result is an original and in-depth study of the contrasting responses of refugees to displacement and to the arrangements made on their behalf at a series of critical junctures in the past.

Contents:

Introduction : refugees in modern global history : why ‘refugee voices’, why ‘refugeedom’?

Population displacement and refugee regimes

Looking for refugees : in and out of the archive

Refugee encounters

Journeys and destinations

Emotions of refugeedom

Distinguishing features

Refugeedom and political expression.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 28, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version: Gatrell, Peter. Refugee voices in modern global history

ISBN:

9780198937326

0198937326

9780198937302

019893730X

9780198937319

0198937318

OCLC:

1509376386

Publisher Number:

CIPO000213732

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license