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History of the Present (2024) 14 (2): 193–221.
Published: 01 October 2024
...Carrie Hyde Abstract The refugee is typically understood as a uniquely modern figure, but US refugee debates and legislation are as old as the country. This essay considers how eighteenth-century debates about refugees can defamiliarize and enrich narratives about the US rights tradition...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 133–135.
Published: 01 April 2023
... Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, a country in the throes of a world-shattering economic, political, social, and environmental crisis. In Lebanon, temporality is the seven-hour queue at the gas station; the brief duration of power supply emanating from exorbitantly priced private generators; the long hours...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 11–19.
Published: 01 April 2023
... reader: I was a refugee from Sri Lanka learning to live in London from 1990 onward—a ten-year-old who arrived from a war zone with my elder sister and father, a father who had to start again, growing into an adolescent who lived interminably in the immediate moment, weighed down by what seemed unbearable...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (2): 217–232.
Published: 01 October 2019
... the door and the young people came and said it had to happen now. So I let them in.2 The sanctuary movement reached a certain degree of popularity in the U.S. in the 1980s, when President Ronald Reagan began deporting refugees to their countries of origin. More than five hundred churches (and not only...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (1): 27–54.
Published: 01 April 2019
... 2016, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei posed for photographer Rohit Chawla oflndia Todiry.52 Ai had set up his studio on the Greek island ofLesbos some weeks earlier, as a declaration ofsolidaritywith refugees who had been alighting for Europe in unprecedented numbers from Turkish shores in the preceding...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 20–26.
Published: 01 April 2023
... the world. When East Pakistan declared independence as the sovereign nation of Bangladesh in 1971, cholera outbreaks in the refugee camps across the Indian border claimed many lives, while the PSCRL, to quote the New York Times , became an “unintended financial casualty.” The United States chose...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): 119–139.
Published: 01 October 2013
... remaining Europeanterritories and sixty-nine percent of the population inhabiting the European provinces. 8 Just as the Ottoman Empire was losing segments of its Christian population, it was gaining Muslim refugees from the Balkans. One consequence ofthisremakingoftheempire'sgeographic and religious...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 April 2023
... concatenates inequity: the North’s loss is wrenching; the Global South’s, endemic. Trusted vernaculars of hate around refugees and migrants are repackaged into the discovery of epidemiological lexicons. Suturing pandemic histories to subaltern futures, Thiranagama weaves collective and personal histories...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 245–264.
Published: 01 October 2023
... of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947–1949 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1989 . Otzma Yehudit Party . “ The Platform of Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Strength) .” https://ozma-yeudit.com/the-platform-of-otzma-yehudit-jewish-strength/ (accessed February 1 , 2023 ). Pappé Ilan...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 52–56.
Published: 01 April 2023
... University Irving Medical Center ). Famine, as well as other traumatic events, including wars and pandemics, can leave genetic, physical, and mental traces on descendants. And the descendants of stateless refugees, in many cases, have inherited their ancestors’ status or nonstatus. This is not to suggest...
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History of the Present (2015) 5 (1): 95–108.
Published: 01 April 2015
... less. On the contrary, like virtually all other events ofour century, the solu­ tion of the Jewish question merely produced a new category of refugees, the Arabs, thereby increasing the number of the stateless and rightless by another 700,000 to 800,000 people:'48 In order to work through this paradox...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (2): 281–304.
Published: 01 October 2020
... the antidiscrimination laws, or do not break the law against hate speech. Contrary to the Forum’s conclusion, then, the historical example rather implies that the tolerant individual today ought to be the one who defies the laws by which refugees are forced to hide from the government: people, for example, who protect...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (2): 140–176.
Published: 01 October 2018
... in the capitalistAtlanticworld, but in a manner different from, and not necessarily congenial to, European revolutionary doctrines.7 When Guinea Sam Nightingale arrived in Boonville, he encountered one of theseEuropean revolutionary doctrines, German communism, brought to Missouri and elsewhere in the United States by refugees...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 283–297.
Published: 01 October 2022
... . “ Universalizing the Indian Ocean .” PMLA 125 , no. 3 ( 2010 ): 721 – 29 . Jayasuriya Shihan de S. , and Pankhurst Richard , eds. The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean . Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press , 2003 . Mamdani Mahmood . From Citizen to Refugee: Uganda Asians Come...
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (1): 97–113.
Published: 01 April 2014
... and financialinstitutionsto refugee camps and HIVclinics. "Fractal" sovereignty and "mobile" sovereignty, "partial" and "informal" and even "therapeutic" sovereignty-less surprising than the persistence ofthis seemingly archaic figure is how polymorphouslypliable it has proven in recent years, stretching and twisting...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 67–83.
Published: 01 April 2020
..., organizing through AVROS, the Rubber Planters’ Association, and estate workers. In the British understanding, their interlocutors in the tier of administrative staff were “mostly Batak refugees” who had aligned with union organizers among the labor force but also were understood to have influence upon...
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 April 2014
... together for a few months. In the first reunions veterans of 1848, old and experienced orators, met together with young workers from the Paris section of the International Workers Asso­ ciation and with refugees from London, Brussels and Geneva. Those who spoke did so "with decorum, tact, often with some...
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (1): 49–74.
Published: 01 April 2014
..., Israeli and Palestinian NGOs during and after the Second Intifada, refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, the Balkan conflicts and other situations of humanitar­ ian intervention. In many ofthese situations, the appropriation and deployment of trauma discourse reproduces and naturalizes a variegated array...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 April 2013
... calcontrol ofthe armies.from which they were captured shallbe regarded as political refugees who will be given sanctuary? 3. Why could not the International Red Cross, or some similar nonpartisan group, accept the responsibilityfor interviewing each prisoner and establishing the truth ofhis personal wish? 4...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (2): 177–208.
Published: 01 October 2018
... against ethnic Chinese. Mostly attributed to the Dutch government information ser­ vice, these journalistic photographs document the immediate aftermath of 194 H I S T O RY ofthe P R E S E NT violence against ethnic Chinese: refugees fleeing on foot, carrying their b e ­ longings; burned remains of shops...