This thesis studies the long-term effects of a historical massive urban-rural migration on the education of migrants’ children in China. During 1968-1978, 18 million urban educated youths were sent to rural areas to study and live. Using the data from the China Family Panel Stud…
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The post-Cold war era marked the evolution in the changing nature of conflicts, transitioning from inter-state towards more complex intrastate encounters. This phenomenon consequently led to the increase of refugees and internally displaced persons which presented a set of key c…
This dissertation was aimed to gather information on the acculturation process and the acculturation experiences of individuals from the Southern Sudanese refugee community in San Diego, California. This study was divided into two distinct phases to obtain in-depth narratives th…
This study examines the effects of conflict and international humanitarian responses on forced migration in Sub-Saharan Africa between 1980 and 2007. In facing violent conflicts, not all people leave their homes. Some people decide to stay. Some people seek a refuge outside thei…
This dissertation analyzes the historical dynamics of the process of demographic engineering that took place in the early years of the Turkish Republic. By focusing on the case of the forced displacement and resettlement of the Alevi Kurds of Dersim between 1937 and 1947, this d…
The subject of this thesis is the transformation of social ties, examined through the migration and settlement trajectories of 32 ex-Yugoslavian humanitarian refugees selected abroad and settled in two regions of Quebec: Saguenay (in the cities of Chicoutimi and Jonquière) and L…
This dissertation undertakes a transnational analysis of conflict-induced displacement of Kurds from Turkey, by examining both their internal displacement within Turkey, as well as their external displacement to Europe as refugees. It conceptualizes displacement as a form of sta…
This dissertation examines the case of 250-300,000 largely Orthodox Christian refugees who fled Ottoman Bosnia and Hercegovina for the Habsburg Empire during the uprisings of 1875–1878. The violence during this period started out as a peasant uprising, but over the course of thr…
The number of displaced persons has increased dramatically over the past few decades and is expected to continue to rise. By the end of 1999 there were believed to be between 32 and 38 million displaced persons worldwide (UN 2000, USCR 2000). Most of these people have been or wi…
This dissertation argues that the split sovereignty of the United Provinces in the seventeenth century enabled the granting of sovereign rights to the Dutch East India Company under its founding charter that formed the legal basis of the Company's imperial realm. The Dutch East …
This dissertation is a history of black life in the wake of forced migration to the lower Mississippi Valley during the nineteenth century. It is a history of bought and brought enslaved people, of the local material and environmental conditions that drove their forced migration…
In the 1940’s, tens of thousands of people of Japanese and German heritage throughout the western hemisphere were forcibly uprooted from their homes resulting in a traumatic separation from their families, communities, possessions, and identities. While some people were confined…