Title:	Crossing the Aegean
Authors:	Renee Hirschon
Keywords:	Greco-Turkish War, 1921-1922--Refugees
Issue Date:	2003
Publisher:	Berghahn Books
Description:	This book comprises most of the conference papers, all revised. (The original papers can be consulted on the website of the Refugee Studies Centre). The intention of the conference and of the book is primarily to offer a case study of the consequences of the large-scale population transfer of 1923 between Greece and Turkey, examining its far-reaching effects on the development of these two nations over the past eighty years. The intrinsic interest of this volume then is regional, specific and empirical, showing for the first time the long-term ramifications of a mass population expulsion - nowadays termed 'ethnic cleansing' in a distasteful euphemism - in the Aegean region. This study also has a wider significance, situated as it is in the context of the rapidly-growing field of forced mif,'Tation and refugee studies. As mass population displacements are on the increase involving millions of people in all parts of the world, it surely behoves us to incorporate the historical experience of those countries that have dealt with the effects of absorbing displaced populations over the long term. Other suggestive cases for analysis would include those that could be surveyed over more than fifty years - the India-Pakistan partition, the establishment of the state of Israel out of Palestine. Thus, this aspect of the project provokes us to engage with the difficult issue of what can be learned from history. The contemporary relevance of insights gained from this specific case is another aspiration of the book, although it does not address policy issues directly. Nonetheless many of the contributions provide material in which the implications for practical application are available. Thus, a contemporary and comparative perspective is the wider conceptual framework in which this volume is set, with the hope that it might contribute to a deeper understanding of large-scale forced migrations and the many dimensions of their far-reaching consequences.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/55692
ISBN:	1-57181-767 0
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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