Refuge and Rejection: The Past and Present of Displaced Persons

Fellow Project Academic Year
2006

In this project we will build a humanistic, historical framework for consideration of persons displaced by war, natural disaster, and political upheaval.  We examine the historical and contemporary circumstances of refugees, stateless persons and other migrants.  We identify a set of specific research questions that we will address:  1) Who is a refugee? Who is a displaced person?  2) Where in history and contemporary circumstances do we see marked differences in their treatment?  3) What explains such differences?

Fellow Project Principal Investigator
Brian Gratton, History
Anna Holian, History