The Making of the Modern Refugee

by Peter Gatrell

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198744471
• ISBN13: 9780198744474
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"