Refugees in Modern World History - AIH2030

Assessment 1: Written plan

1 x formative plan of either essay or document analysis (750 words).

Written plan

Assessment 1: Written Assignment

Written Assignment

Assessment 2: Written Assignment

‘Refugees in Modern World History’ explores the political, social, legal, cultural and emotional history of refugees in the Twentieth Century.  It uses the buoyant historical scholarship in refugee studies as well as new archival collections, including those at the Holocaust Learning and Exhibition Centre, to ask how we can capture the refugee ‘voice’ in history and how this can help us reflect on the experience of displacement.  It also contextualises current notions of a ‘refugee crisis’ and the contested memory of refugee history in the media.

School of Arts and Humanities

Gatrell, P., Nowak, K., Dowdall, A. &amp; Ghoshal, A., ‘Reckoning with refugeedom: refugees in modern history’, Social History, 46, 1 (2021).
Jacqueline Jenkinson and Caroline Verdier, ‘War trauma among Belgian refugee women in Scotland in the First World War’, Women’s History Review, 28, 7 (2019)
Gatrell, P., The Making of the Modern Refugee, Oxford, OUP, 2015.
Keith Watenpaugh, ‘The League of Nations’ Rescue of Armenian Genocide Survivors and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism, 1920 – 1927’, The American Historical Review, 115, 5 (2010)
History Workshop Journal online, ‘Moving People’, podcast series. <a href="https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/category/features/moving-people/">Moving People – History Workshop</a>
Refugee History (website) <a href="http://refugeehistory.org/">Refugee History.</a>

History

AIH2030 - Refugees in Modern World History

Refugees in Modern World History

be able to communicate clearly and concisely in a variety of ways with appropriate referencing, demonstrating appropriate digital literacy.

be able to display a comprehensive historical knowledge of  refugee law, policy and humanitarian practice in the twentieth century, as well as the experience of refugees.

be able to recognise differing perspectives on historial interpretations in relation to the history of refugees in the twentieth century and ask questions of these interpretations.

be able to sustain a reasoned line of argument in writing.

be able to evaluate and interpret significant bodies of primary material from the early to mid-twentieth century pertaining to refugee history.