Peter Gatrell

Free World?

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Unique study of a postwar campaign by the UN, NGOs, governments and individuals to address the global refugee crisis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 559g
• ISBN-13: 9781107002401
• ISBN-10: 1107002400
• Artikelnr.: 32556357

Autorenporträt

Peter Gatrell is Professor of Economic History at the University of Manchester. His previous publications include Homelands: War, Population and Statehood in Eastern Europe and Russia, 1918-1924 (co-edited, 2004), and Warlands: Population Resettlement and State Reconstruction in the Soviet-East European Borderlands, 1945-1950 (co-edited, 2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Free World?
2. Sites of confrontation, crucibles of displacement: towards World Refugee Year
3. World Refugee Year: the politics of a global campaign
4. World Refugee Year presences and absences
5. Bricks or dynamite? Achievements, disappointments, opportunities
Conclusion. Global politics, humanitarianism and refugees in the modern era.