Dawn ChattyDisplacement and Dispossession in the Modern Middle East
Dawn Chatty is a social anthropologist with long experience in the Middle East. Displacement and Dispossession in the Modern Middle East is her most recent book. Previously she edited the thirty-six chapter Nomadic Societies in the Middle East and North Africa: Facing the 21st Century (2006). She is University Reader in Anthropology and Forced Migration at the Refugee Studies Centre in the Department of International Development, University of Oxford.
Introduction: forced migration in the contemporary Middle East: community
cohesion in impermanent landscapes; 1. Dispossession and displacement
within the contemporary Middle East: an overview of theories and concepts;
2. Dispossession and forced migration in the late Ottoman Empire: distinct
cultures and separated communities; 3. Circassian, Chechnyan and other
Muslim communities expelled from the Caucuses and the Balkans; 4. The
Armenians and other Christians: evictions and massacres; 5. Palestinian
dispossession and exodus; 6. Kurds dispossessed and made stateless; 7.
Liminality and belonging: social cohesion in impermanent landscapes.
