This volume assesses the context in which the right of forced migrants are recognised in international law. It covers topical issues such as terrorism, asylum, refugee rights and human rights law.
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The international protection regime for refugees and other forced migrants seems increasingly at risk as measures designed to enhance security--of borders, of people, of institutions, and of national identity--encroach upon human rights. This timely edited collection responds to…
This book explores the rearrangement of political borders after the Second World War in the Mediterranean region. The work highlighting this new political configuration emphasizes Istrian exodus. The study also talks of the migration of same 350,000 ethnic Italians, Slovens and …
A memoir of the author's childhood experiences living with an upper-class Leeds family after having escaped from Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport in 1939.
In 1939, on the eve of Hitler's invasion of Poland, seven-year-old Edith Milton (then Edith Cohn) and her sister Ruth left Germany by way of the Kindertransport, the program which gave some 10,000 Jewish children refuge in England. The two were given shelter by a jovial, upper-c…
In inter-war Europe, millions of refugees, including Russians, Armenians, Greeks, and Jews, constituted a major humanitarian and political issue. This book examines the origins of refugee movements of the 1920s and 1930s and international responses to them. The book argues that …
A comprehensive study of war, population and statehood in Eastern Europe and Russia, 1918-1924.
"The topic of state-building has acquired a new actuality in recent years, following the collapse of the USSR and the 'Soviet bloc' and in view of the complex, often violent, territorial and ethnic conflicts which have ensued. Many of the current dilemmas and tragedies of the re…
A comprehensive analysis of the modern-day movement of refugees reveals the normalcy of cross-border migration in search of work and the contemporary developments, such as the mass dislocations during World War II, that have helped shaped the refugee concept at the end of the ce…