Middle East and the World

Catalog description

This is a change in title. Please use the description associated with the course Middle East Migration [HIST B8016], as follows: This course will focus on migration to and from the Middle East and North Africa in the 19th and 20th century and the politics of mobility regulation, identity, and citizenship. Topics will include the massive 19th-century influx of Muslim refugees from Russian and the Balkans to Ottoman lands; forced population transfer, including the Armenian genocide and Turkish and Greek "population exchange" of 1923; settler colonialism; Arab migration to the Americas; and post-colonial Muslim migrations to Europe.