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Seminar
WiSe 17/18: Refugees as a Concern for International Cooperation in Historical Perspective
Eva-Maria Muschik
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Today, there are over 65 million refugees worldwide. Forced displacement across national borders is a problem that requires solutions at the supra-national level. This course will examine when
and in what ways refugees have been a concern for international cooperation, and what roles international organizations have come to
play with regard to refugees in the twentieth century. Activities ranged from relief work, to patrolling migration, to categorizing asylum-seekers into distinct groups with varying degrees of corresponding entitlements and protections, to political advocacy on their behalf, to more ambitious resettlement-cum-development schemes. We will examine how refugees first became an issue in international politics, how World War I and the collapse of empires prompted the League of Nations to take action with regard to certain groups of refugees; how the flight from fascism
and displacement during World War II led to novel forms of international cooperation and assistance; and finally, in what ways the Cold War and decolonization shaped the development of a postwar international refugee regime.
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15 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Tue, 2017-10-17 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2017-10-24 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2017-11-07 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2017-11-14 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2017-11-21 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2017-11-28 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2017-12-05 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2017-12-12 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2017-12-19 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2018-01-09 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2018-01-16 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2018-01-23 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2018-01-30 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2018-02-06 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2018-02-13 16:00 - 18:00