The Making of the Modern Refugee

The Making of the Modern Refugee
ISBN-10
0199674167
ISBN-13
9780199674169
Category
History
Pages
312
Language
English
Published
2013-09-12
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Peter Gatrell

Description

Offers a comprehensive history of global population displacement in the twentieth century, and provides a new analytic approach to the subject by exploring its causes, consequences, and meanings

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