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240116 SE VM5 / VM1 - Refugees and Forced Displacement in a Global Historical Perspective (2024S)

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max. 25 participants
Language: English

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  • Monday 11.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 7, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Monday 18.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 7, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Monday 08.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 7, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Monday 15.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 7, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Monday 22.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 7, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Monday 29.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 7, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Monday 06.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 7, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Monday 13.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 7, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Monday 27.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 7, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Monday 03.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 7, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Monday 10.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 7, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Monday 17.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 7, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Monday 24.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 7, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01

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Aims, contents and method of the course

Millions of people have historically been forced from their homes by factors including war destruction, political persecution, regime changes, revolutions, or genocide throughout the twentieth century and in the first two decades of the twenty-first century. This has culminated in new understandings of international law and new ways of treating vulnerable populations. The management of various displacement crises has constituted a critical challenge for local populations, state institutions, as well as international and non-governmental organizations in these various contexts.
This course has three scopes:
(1) We look at causes and contexts in exploring waves of refugees created by wars, by the rise of authoritarian regimes and exclusionary policies, as well as by various political changes at the time of decolonization and after the collapse of communist regimes.
(2) We look back at the changes and continuities in refugee policy and ways local, national, and international actors addressed and attempted to resolve various crises of displacement. What is a “refugee?” Are refugees distinct from other migrants? And who decides who gains “refugee” status and who does not?
(3) We delve in refugees’ experience of flight and how they shaped and negotiated the management of their displacement.

At the end of the course, students should be able to:
1.Become familiar with debates in the fields of history of refugees and forced displacement.
2.Critically analyze historical roots and attempted resolutions of various waves of forced displacement.
3.Develop the capacity to critically engage with the literature and interpret past and contemporary sources (visual, textual, oral, data) relating to the topic of the course.
4.Engage in contemporary debates on forced displacement and humanitarian responses, drawing on insights from historical experiences

Assessment and permitted materials

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Term paper (50%);
Blog Essay (30%);
Participation (20%)

Examination topics

Reading list

Heba Gowayed, “Becoming a Refugee,” in Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential (Princeton University Press, 2022).
Rebecca Hamlin, “The Migrant/Refugee Binary,” in Crossing: How we Label and React to People on he Move (Stanford University Press, 2021), 1-24.
Arthur C. Helton, “Why Refugees Matter,” in The Price of Indifference: Refugees and Humanitarian Action in the New Century (Oxford University Press, 2002).
Peter Gatrell, “Refugees and Forced Migrants during the First World War,” Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora, Vol. 26, Issue 1-2 (2008), 82-110
E Kyle Romero, “Nations on the Move: US Humanitarians and Refugee Management in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1918-1923,” Diplomatic History, Vol. 47, Issue 1 (2023), 112-138.
Keith Watenpaugh, “Between Communal Survival and National Aspiration: Armenian Genocide Refugees, the League of Nations, and the Practices of Interwar Humanitarianism,” Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, Vol. 5, No.2 (Summer 2014), 159-181.
Tara Zahra, “The First Final Solution” in The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World (W.W. Norton & Company, 2016), 184-231.
Marion Kaplan, “Escaping Terror and the Terror of Escaping: Before and After the War Turned West,” in Hitler’s Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal (Yale University Press, 2020), 23-65.
Peter Gatrell, “Putting the Refugees in their Place,” New Global Studies, Vol. 7, No.1 (2013), 1-24.
Tara Zahra, “The Psychological Marshall Plan:” Displacement, Gender, and Human Rights after World War II,” Central European History, Vol. 44, No.1 (March 2011), 37-62.
Anne Irfan, “Educating Palestinian Refugees: The Origins of UNRWA’s Unique Schooling System,” Journal of Refugee Studies, Vol. 34, Issue 1 (March 2021), 1037-1059
Simo Mikkan, “Exploiting the Exiles: Soviet Emigres in U.S. Cold War Strategy,” Cold War History, Vol. 14, No.2 (Spring 2012), 98-127.
Maximillian Graf and Sarah Knoll, “In Transit or Asylum Seekers? Austria and the Cold War Refugees from the Communist Bloc,” in Günther Bischof and Dirk Rupnow eds., Migration in Austria (University of New Orleans Press 2017).
Carl Bon Tempo, “From Hungary, New Americans: The United States and Hungarian Refugees,” in Americans at the Gate: The United States and Refugees during the Cold War (Princeton University Press, 2008).
Laura Madokoro, “Cold War Visuals: Capturing the Politics of Resettlement” in Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016)
Jana Lipman, “ “Protest against Forced Repatriation!”: Humanitarianism and Human Rights in Hong Kong, 1989-1997,” in In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Repatriates (University of California Press, 2020)
Jana Lipman, “A Refugee Camp in America: Fort Chaffee and Vietnamese and Cuban Refugees, 1975-1982,” Journal of American Ethnic History, Vol. 33, No.2 (2014), 57-87.
Carl Lindskoog, “The Refugee Crisis of 1980 Forging the Detention Tool,” in Detain and Punish: Haitian Refugees and the Rise of the World’s Largest Immigration Detention System (University of Florida Press, 2018)
Ana Raquel Minian, “Offshoring Migration Control: Guatemalan Transmigrants and the
Construction of Mexico as a Buffer Zone,” American Historical Review (February 2020), 89-111
Peter Gatrell, “ ‘ Some Kind of Freedom’ Refugees, Homecoming, and Refugee Voices in Contemporary History,” in The Making of the Modern Refugee (Oxford University Press, 2013, 253-282.
Philipp Ther, “Refugee Politics After the Cold War: Humanitarianism after 1989 and “Fortress Europe,” in The Outsiders, 231-248.
Barbara Franz, “Bosnian refugees and socio-economic realities: Changes in refugee and settlement policies in Austria and the United States,” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol. 29, Issue 1 (2003), 5-25.
Collectif Argos, Climate Refugees (selections)

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VM5 / VM1

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