Refugee Voices in Modern Global History: Reckoning with Refugeedom

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Peter Gatrell (Emeritus Professor of History, University of Manchester) Katarzyna Nowak (MSCA Fellow, University of Vienna)

Refugee Voices in Modern Global History

Reckoning with Refugeedom

Peter Gatrell (Emeritus Professor of History, University of Manchester), Katarzyna Nowak (MSCA Fellow, University of Vienna), Lauren Banko (Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, University of Manchester) , Anindita Ghoshal (Associate Professor of History, Diamond Harbour Women's University)

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Oxford University Press
02 May 2025

Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Social & cultural history; Refugees & political asylum

Across modern history, refugees have articulated their experiences and wishes against the backdrop of mass displacement brought about by world wars, civil war, revolution, population exchange, decolonisation, and state formation. Men and women displaced in different sites, from different backgrounds, and at different times have played for high stakes: they deliberated about what to say and to whom, and they sought, expected, and effected a response.

Refugee Voices in Modern Global History places refugees at the centre of modern history. It demonstrates how ordinary refugees understood their experiences of displacement and engaged with institutions that sought 'solutions' to their predicament. Ranging widely across global contexts to establish what refugees had to say and to whom, it shows them to have consistently been purposeful actors, making it possible to transcend conventional and hackneyed depictions of 'crisis'.

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' to their predicament. 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.

By: Peter Gatrell (Emeritus Professor of History University of Manchester), Katarzyna Nowak (MSCA Fellow, University of Vienna), Lauren Banko (Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, University of Manchester), Anindita Ghoshal (Associate Professor of History, Diamond Harbour Women's University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 241mm, Width: 164mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 554g
ISBN: 9780198937296
ISBN 10: 0198937296
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 02 May 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Refugees in Modern Global History: Why 'Refugee Voices', Why 'Refugeedom'? 1: Population Displacement and Refugee Regimes 2: Looking for Refugees : In and Out of the Archive 3: Refugee Encounters 4: Journeys and Destinations 5: Emotions of Refugeedom 6: Distinguishing Features 7: Refugeedom and Political Expression Conclusions

Peter Gatrell was appointed to a lectureship in economic history at the University of Manchester in 1976 and retired in 2021 when he became an emeritus professor. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He was a founding member of the University of Manchester Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute. Dr Katarzyna Nowak is a historian specialising in cultural and social history of the early Cold War. Currently she is a Marie Curie Fellow at the Research Center for History of Transformations at the University of Vienna. Previously she held research positions at the Central European University, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, and the University of Manchester. Lauren Banko is currently Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in Humanities in the Department of History at the University of Manchester. Her three-year research grant is entitled