Global Refugee Migration

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The 20th century has been called the century of the refugee, characterized by the collapse of multiethnic empires, the rise of nation-states, and catastrophic population displacements. Students explore what causes people to flee their homes and how refugees have changed history from WWI to the modern day, investigating the creation of refugee as a political, legal, and historical category, the origins of international humanitarianism and global refugee regimes, the making of refugee diasporas, and the emergence of new types of refugees today. Particular attention to developments in the Middle East, which has been at the center of some defining refugee crises of the modern era.