Refugee History.

Understanding historical and political contexts to contemporary refugee movements.

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Jul 21

Jul 21 The Cretan Rebellion of 1897 and the Emigration of the Cretan Muslims

Rachel Ainsworth

Then & Now

Jul 17

Jul 17 The remarkable story of the Uskoks: lessons on migration from the Middle Ages

Nick Miller

Then & Now

Jul 11

Jul 11 Responsibilities towards refugees fleeing atrocities: A failure to learn lessons from Srebrenica?

Kate Ferguson

Then & Now

Jun 19

Jun 19 Where should we look to find Britain’s ‘tradition of welcome’ of refugees?

Becky Taylor

Then & Now

Feb 7

Feb 7 The Continuing Refugee Crisis

Jennifer Reeve

Then & Now

The continuing refugee crisis, involving movements of people from countries including Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Nigeria and Iran, is global and acute in nature and is once more making headlines and trending on social media, particularly in response to President Trump’s executive action on immigration and refugees that was issued on 27 January 2017 (Holocaust Memorial Day, no less).

Jan 30

Jan 30 The Power of Shame: Public Intervention and Nineteenth-Century Refugee Relief

Caroline Shaw

Then & Now

In early March 1851, a ship docked at the harbor in Liverpool laden with Polish refugees. These men, for they were mostly men, had been soldiers in the failed Hungarian Revolution. Chased from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, they made their way west in search of asylum.

Jan 30

Jan 30 Hannah Arendt’s Refugee History

Lyndsey Stonebridge

Then & Now

Hannah Arendt was, in her own words, an ‘illegal immigrant’. She had never been under any illusions about the capacities of the Nazi regime, but when she was caught doing clandestine work for a Zionist organisation in 1933, she knew she had no to choice but to leave.

Dec 15

Dec 15 A Bitter Road: Refugees Past and Present

Dan Stone

Then & Now

In today’s world, 24 people a minute are displaced. One in every 113 people is either an asylum-seeker, internally-displaced or a refugee. There are about 65 million refugees in the world, about the same as the population of the United Kingdom.