REFUGEE REGIME IN THE OTTOMAN MIDDLE EAST

THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 2021, 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM - ONLINE

Presented by the Center for Middle East Studies.

UCSB Global Studies professor Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky will give a talk about refugee regime in the Ottoman Middle East. In his talk he will examine the making of the Ottoman refugee regime between the 1860s and World War I. Refugee regimes are typically seen as products of the contemporary nation-state order, going back to the 1951 United Nations Refugee Convention or, at the earliest, the interwar League of Nations. In contrast, Dr. Hamed-Troyansky argues that the Ottoman Empire constructed its own refugee regime, which functioned in many ways similar to the ones we have today.

This event is free and takes place on Zoom.