January 24, 2022

Beyond the State: Refuge & Refugees in Middle Eastern History

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Dawn Chatty University of Oxford

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What sorts of refuge have been offered to stateless people and refugees at different historical moments? Anthropologist Dawn Chatty joins us to discuss models of refuge in the Ottoman and Syrian refugee crises, and to think about how historical models of refuge go beyond emergency assistance to imagine permanent settlement and social integration.

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Dawn Chatty
University of Oxford
Oxford, England

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