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BCA’37 UK - The Association for the UK Basque Children.
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Bríd Ní Ghráinne
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Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh & Yousif M. Qasmiyeh,
Elisa Sandri
Emily Crowley
Fiona Barclay
Fionntán O'Hara
Gerawork Teferra
Haig Smith
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Helena Lopes
Huw Halstead
Imogen Dobie
Ismail Alkhateeb, Irem Karabağ, Marcia C. Schenck, and Kate Reed
Jana Lipman
Jeff Crisp
Jennifer Reeve
Jochen Lingelbach
Jordanna Bailkin
Joy Damousi, Filippo Nelli, Anh Nguyen Austen, Alessandro Toffoli & Mary Tomsic
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Karl Qualls
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Katherine Luongo
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Laura Madokoro
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Lyndsey Stonebridge
Maja Janmyr
Marcia Schenck Kate Reed
Marta Welander
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Olaf Kleist
Paladia Ziss
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Peter Gatrell
Rachel Ainsworth
Rachel Pistol
Rachel McNally
Rahul Balasundaram
Rebekah Klein-Pejšová
Refugee History
Rhys Crilley
Ria Kapoor
Ria Sunga
Richard Mills
Robert Carr
Rosy Ricket
Ryan Sun
Samantha Knapton
Samantha Knapton and Katherine Rossy
Sameema Rahman
Sandeep Parmar
Sara Cosemans
Sara Cosemans & Maja Janmyr
Shaun Hargreaves Heap
Sinéad Murphy
Tabea Linhard
Tess Berry-Hart
Tony Kushner
Trudi Tate
Uttara Shahani
Vesna Lukic and Thomas Kador
Vinh Nguyen
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Refugee History.
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Recent Posts
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Oct 24, 2024
no refuge: a provocation
Oct 24, 2024
Oct 24, 2024
Oct 3, 2024
Refuge in Mexico: Twentieth-century Memories for a World on the Move
Oct 3, 2024
Oct 3, 2024
Oct 3, 2024
Moments in Refugee History and the Development of the Modern Refugee Regime
Oct 3, 2024
Oct 3, 2024
Sep 20, 2024
Refugee History Returns
Sep 20, 2024
Sep 20, 2024
Jul 18, 2024
Relief and Rehabilitation for a Postwar World: Humanitarian Intervention and the UNRRA
Jul 18, 2024
Jul 18, 2024
Aid, Advocacy & Activim
Blog
Jan 26, 2024
Challenging ‘Fortress Europe’: Refugee Solidarities in 1990s Britain
Jan 26, 2024
Jan 26, 2024
Apr 1, 2021
A new politics of solidarity?
Apr 1, 2021
Apr 1, 2021
Feb 12, 2021
A recent history of camps in French migration policy, part 2: Encampment and eviction
Feb 12, 2021
Feb 12, 2021
Feb 5, 2021
A recent history of camps in French migration policy, part 1: Making camps
Feb 5, 2021
Feb 5, 2021
Aug 10, 2018
10 Articles for 20 Years: UEA Refugee History’s Aid, Advocacy and Activism Series
Aug 10, 2018
Aug 10, 2018
Jun 26, 2018
4 Periods in the UK’s History of Voluntary Refugee Support
Jun 26, 2018
Jun 26, 2018
Jun 24, 2018
Supporting Asylum Seekers and Refugees for Two Decades: Initiatives by the University of East London and Refugee Council Archive
Jun 24, 2018
Jun 24, 2018
Jun 23, 2018
STAR - Welcoming Refugees to the UK Since 1994
Jun 23, 2018
Jun 23, 2018
Jun 22, 2018
The Aquarius and its historic precedents: rescue at sea and the politics of disembarkation
Jun 22, 2018
Jun 22, 2018
Jun 21, 2018
Humans and animals in refugee camps, past and present
Jun 21, 2018
Jun 21, 2018
Jun 20, 2018
How photographs contribute to understanding refugee history: Kukes, the Kosovar refugees and lessons for refugee aid
Jun 20, 2018
Jun 20, 2018
Jun 20, 2018
Generosity in translation: the value of volunteering to Australia’s Kosovar refugee programme
Jun 20, 2018
Jun 20, 2018
Jun 19, 2018
People to People: The Volunteer Phenomenon
Jun 19, 2018
Jun 19, 2018
Jun 17, 2018
Refugee Week 2018: 20 Years of Refugee Aid, Advocacy and Activism
Jun 17, 2018
Jun 17, 2018
Then & Now
Blog
Jul 28, 2023
A peculiar nostalgia? Oral histories of childhoods in a postwar Polish Resettlement Camp in the UK
Jul 28, 2023
Jul 28, 2023
Jun 1, 2023
The possibilities in transit: Helmut Newton’s experiences on a Shanghai-bound ship
Jun 1, 2023
Jun 1, 2023
Mar 9, 2023
Which refugees are welcome? How ‘hard’ legal status and ‘soft’ notions of belonging shape the reception of displaced populations
Mar 9, 2023
Mar 9, 2023
Dec 16, 2022
Holocaust refugees in a global context
Dec 16, 2022
Dec 16, 2022
Dec 1, 2022
Refugees and neutral territories: Hong Kong and Macau during World War II
Dec 1, 2022
Dec 1, 2022
Sep 15, 2022
The unwilling nomads of twentieth-century Europe
Sep 15, 2022
Sep 15, 2022
Sep 1, 2022
‘On the case’: methodological and ethical challenges of using casefiles as sources for refugee history
Sep 1, 2022
Sep 1, 2022
Jul 21, 2022
Time for a convention on internal displacement? The history of the internal displacement protection regime
Jul 21, 2022
Jul 21, 2022
Jun 9, 2022
Waves of migration: a Vietnamese refugee boat journey in numerical modelling and oral history
Jun 9, 2022
Jun 9, 2022
May 26, 2022
UNHCR’s first urban refugee policy, 25 years on
May 26, 2022
May 26, 2022
Refugees & Representation
Blog
Nov 11, 2021
Apartheid refugees: literature and exile
Nov 11, 2021
Nov 11, 2021
Apr 29, 2021
Not just rescue: rethinking 30 April 1975 and Vietnamese diasporic history
Apr 29, 2021
Apr 29, 2021
Feb 12, 2021
A recent history of camps in French migration policy, part 2: Encampment and eviction
Feb 12, 2021
Feb 12, 2021
Jan 29, 2021
Historicising displacement: Bridging academia and refugee agency
Jan 29, 2021
Jan 29, 2021
Jan 28, 2021
Forced to Flee: Engaging with conflict and community responses to refugees
Jan 28, 2021
Jan 28, 2021
Jan 27, 2021
Refugees at IWM – Filling in the gaps
Jan 27, 2021
Jan 27, 2021
Jan 26, 2021
Refugees at IWM – Where turning away is an option
Jan 26, 2021
Jan 26, 2021
Jan 25, 2021
Refugees at the Imperial War Museum: a virtual round table
Jan 25, 2021
Jan 25, 2021
May 25, 2018
Flight & Suspended: An Artist’s Response to the “Refugee Crisis”
May 25, 2018
May 25, 2018
Aug 23, 2017
Partition of India
Aug 23, 2017
Aug 23, 2017
Reviews
Blog
Jun 15, 2023
Review of ‘The Refugee System’ by Rawan Arar and David Scott FitzGerald
Jun 15, 2023
Jun 15, 2023
Feb 3, 2022
Precarity of welcome: review of Becky Taylor's Refugees in Twentieth-Century Britain
Feb 3, 2022
Feb 3, 2022
Jul 2, 2021
Reflecting on Refugee History: Refugee Week 2021
Jul 2, 2021
Jul 2, 2021
Apr 1, 2021
A new politics of solidarity?
Apr 1, 2021
Apr 1, 2021
Jan 29, 2021
Historicising displacement: Bridging academia and refugee agency
Jan 29, 2021
Jan 29, 2021
Jan 28, 2021
Forced to Flee: Engaging with conflict and community responses to refugees
Jan 28, 2021
Jan 28, 2021
Jan 27, 2021
Refugees at IWM – Filling in the gaps
Jan 27, 2021
Jan 27, 2021
Jan 26, 2021
Refugees at IWM – Where turning away is an option
Jan 26, 2021
Jan 26, 2021
Jan 25, 2021
Refugees at the Imperial War Museum: a virtual round table
Jan 25, 2021
Jan 25, 2021
Aug 24, 2018
Review of Communities of Solidarity: The Story of Pikpa Refugee Camp
Aug 24, 2018
Aug 24, 2018
Refugees Today
Blog
Jan 12, 2023
On the Franco-British border: plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose?
Jan 12, 2023
Jan 12, 2023
Aug 4, 2022
Who is counting the refugees? Displacement data, its limitations, and potential for misuse
Aug 4, 2022
Aug 4, 2022
Nov 30, 2021
Border-crossing: History Dialogues between camp and campus
Nov 30, 2021
Nov 30, 2021
Nov 25, 2021
Hopehood across the frontier: permanent transience at Kakuma refugee camp
Nov 25, 2021
Nov 25, 2021
Sep 9, 2021
Call for submissions, autumn 2021
Sep 9, 2021
Sep 9, 2021
Aug 2, 2021
Mayday: histories of maritime rescue and repulsion
Aug 2, 2021
Aug 2, 2021
Jun 24, 2021
Selective memory? How history figures in social sciences research on forced displacement to Germany
Jun 24, 2021
Jun 24, 2021
May 14, 2021
The historical connections of search and rescue at sea
May 14, 2021
May 14, 2021
Mar 11, 2021
‘Particular social group’ in historical focus: cultural knowledge in witchcraft-based asylum cases
Mar 11, 2021
Mar 11, 2021
Feb 5, 2021
A recent history of camps in French migration policy, part 1: Making camps
Feb 5, 2021
Feb 5, 2021
Archives & Resources
Blog
Jun 6, 2024
Triangulation and Technology: Analysing UNHCR Documents from and beyond the UNHCR Archives
Jun 6, 2024
Jun 6, 2024
Sep 23, 2021
New resource: Refugee settlement and encampment in the Middle East and North Africa, 1860s–1940s
Sep 23, 2021
Sep 23, 2021
Jul 2, 2021
Reflecting on Refugee History: Refugee Week 2021
Jul 2, 2021
Jul 2, 2021
Nov 3, 2017
Recommended reads: Sexualities, LGBTQ+ lives, and post colonialism
Nov 3, 2017
Nov 3, 2017
May 25, 2017
10 Refugee History Archives
May 25, 2017
May 25, 2017
May 22, 2017
Refugees and Repatriation in Latent History: An Introduction to the John Corsellis Archive
May 22, 2017
May 22, 2017
May 13, 2017
Digital Archives of Refugee History: Resources, Challenges and Opportunities.
May 13, 2017
May 13, 2017
Dec 1, 2016
Hidden Histories, Forgotten Narratives
Dec 1, 2016
Dec 1, 2016
Nov 2, 2016
From the History of Refugees to Refugee History
Nov 2, 2016
Nov 2, 2016
Sep 11, 2016
Ten Twitter Accounts to understand the Current Refugee Crises
Sep 11, 2016
Sep 11, 2016