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.