Παρουσίαση/Προβολή

(520256) -  ΑΓΓΕΛΙΚΗ ΑΘΑΝΑΣΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ

Περιγραφή Μαθήματος

The aim of the course is to study the refugee phenomenon from the 19th century to the present. Its formation will be examined in relation to specific historical frameworks and events, such as the transition from empires to nation-states, the two World Wars, the post-war period (Cold War, anti-colonial struggles, civil wars, dictatorships), and the era from the collapse of socialist states to the present (civil wars, imperialist interventions, regional conflicts). We will analyze the ideological and political uses of the refugee question, as well as the shifts in its official management at the national, supranational, and international levels (international and regional conventions and agreements, international organizations, state policies, and the activities of different types of organizations).

Within this framework, particular attention will be given to the emergence of the refugee as a “distinct social category” in the interwar period; the post-war differentiation between migrant and refugee, and its crystallization through the conferral of a “legal status” upon the latter by the Geneva Convention (1951) and the New York Protocol (1967); the reconfiguration of the refugee-migration nexus and their distinction in the last decade with the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants (2016) and the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (2018).

We will also engage with ethnographic studies focusing on the perceptions and practices of refugees, of local populations (in both cases highlighting ethnic, class, political, and gender differentiations), and of the political, social, and cultural realities shaped through their encounters.

Ημερομηνία δημιουργίας

Δευτέρα 18 Αυγούστου 2025