Contributors examine how the Nakba has shaped the personal and collective memory of Palestinians and how that memory impels their claims for justice.
Contributors examine how the Nakba has shaped the personal and collective memory of Palestinians and how that memory impels their claims for justice.
A detailed analysis of contemporary issues relating to international humanitarian law and its interplay with war migrants.
"In the 1830s, the United States forced the majority of Cherokees to leave their southeastern homeland for new territory in the West, an ordeal that caused the deaths of several thousand Cherokee people. This so-called Trail of Tears became the most famous event in the Indian hi…
"Green Wars challenges international conservation efforts, revealing through in-depth case studies how "saving" the Maya Forest facilitates racialized dispossession. Megan Ybarra brings Guatemala's 36-year civil war into the perspective of a longer history of 200 years of settle…
"For displaced persons, memory and identity is performed, (re)constructed and (re)negotiated daily. Forced displacement radically reshapes identity, with results ranging from successful hybridization to feelings of permanent misplacement. This compelling and intimate description…
For displaced persons, memory and identity is performed, (re)constructed and (re)negotiated daily. Forced displacement radically reshapes identity, with results ranging from successful hybridization to feelings of permanent misplacement. This compelling and intimate description …
"Immediately after the Second World War, the victorious Allies authorized and helped to carry out the forced relocation of German speakers from their homes across central and southern Europe to Germany. The numbers were almost unimaginable--between 12,000,000 and 14,000,000 civi…
On forgetfulness and its perils -- The state of research on the 1989 expulsion -- The 1989 ethnic cleansing through the lens of the international press -- The ethnic cleansing's aftermath and the regime change -- The official coming to terms with the 1989 ethnic cleansing