Refugees
Seminar Tutor: Anca CretuLink opens in a new window
Core Reading
Laura Robson, Human Capital : A History of Putting Refugees to Work (London: Verso, 2023)
Seminar Questions
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How does Laura Robson define "global humanitarianism?"
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How does Human Capital explore ways capitalism embedded global humanitarianism on behalf of refugees?
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How does this study approach history of refugees? What are its methodological strengths? What are its limitations?
Further Reading
Rebecca Hamlin, Crossing: how we label and react to people on the move (Stanford University Press, 2021) - Chapters 1 and 4.
Mira Siegelberg, Statelessness: A Modern History (Harvard, 2020) - Chapter 1
Peter Gatrell et. Al, Refugee Voices in Modern Global History: Reckoning with Refugeedom (OUP, 2025), esp. Chs 1 and 2
Roger Zetter, 'Labelling Refugees: Forming and Transforming a Bureaucratic Identity', Journal of Refugee Studies, 4.1 (1991), pp.39–62, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/4.1.39
Arthur Helton, The price of indifference: refugees and humanitarian action in the new century (OUP, 2002) - Chapter 1