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Human Capital: A History of Putting Refugees to Work
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HOW GLOBAL HUMANITARIANISM TURNS REFUGEES INTO CHEAP LABORHistorian Laura Robson unveils the dark heart of our purportedly humanitarian international regime. Tracing the century-long history of attempts to remake refugees into disposable migrant labor, Robson elucidates global humanitarianism’s deep-seated commitment to refugee exploitation and containment.Surveying more than a hundred years of policy across the globe, Robson captures the travails of Balkan refugees in the late Ottoman Empire, Roosevelt’s secret plans to use German Jewish refugees as laborers in Latin America, and contemporary European efforts to deploy Syrians as low-wage workers in remote regions of Jordan.The advent of internationalist refugee aid has long been told as an inspirational story in which reformers fought tirelessly for a system that would recognize and guarantee the rights of displaced and dispossessed people. But as Robson demonstrates, the motives behind modern refugee policy can be mercenary. Refugees have become easy prey for global industrial capitalism.
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| Weight | 0.47 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2.54 × 16.00 × 4.31 cm |
| Pages | 304 |
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| Format Old` | |
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| Year Published | 2023-11-28 |
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| Publication City/Country | USA |
| ISBN 10 | 1804290211 |
| About The Author | Laura Robson is the Oliver-McCourtney Professor of History at Penn State University and a recent Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. She has written and edited five books on Middle Eastern and global history, including most recently The Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle East (2020) and Partitions: A Transnational History of Twentieth Century Territorial Separatism (with Arie Dubnov, 2019). She is co-founder and co-editor of StatelessHistories.org. |
"Laura Robson reframes the history of international refugee policy, showing that security questions and labor needs have always been at its center. The story she tells is not only about the past but is vital for understanding responses to displacement today."—ILANA FELDMAN, Professor of Anthropology, History, and International Affairs, George Washington University"In this impassioned and important book, Laura Robson casts the modern system of international refugee relief — its origins, evolution, and current objectives — in a damning new light. A powerful, revelatory account of the strategies used by great powers to control and exploit refugees under the guise of humanitarian assistance."—DANE KENNEDY, author of The Imperial History Wars: Debating the British Empire | |
| Table Of Content | Introduction: Refugees, Workers1. What’s a Refugee Regime? The Origins of Mass Displacement Policy2. Turning a Profit: Refugee Policy at the League of Nations3. Colonial Workers: Expanding the Refugee Regime4. From Europe to America: Refugees and the Politics of “Overpopulation”5. Zionism Goes Global: Refugees and Roosevelt’s M Project6. Workers of Another World: Soviet Resettlement Policy7. Refugees versus “Palestine Refugees”: Race and the Postwar International Regime8. The Politics of Confinement: Refugee Aid in the Age of Decolonization9. Containing Labor: Refugees, Migrants, SEZsAfterword: Workers, RefugeesAcknowledgementsNotesIndex |
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