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SUMMARY:Refugee voices in modern global history: reckoning with refugeedom
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DESCRIPTION:Peter Gatrell discusses the approach that he and fellow author
 s adopted in their book\, Refugee Voices in Modern Global History: Reckoni
 ng with Refugeedom. After briefly highlighting some of their key findings\
 , including a justification for the concept of 'refugeedom'\, Profesor Gat
 rell outlines his ongoing research which addresses UNHCR’s engagement wi
 th refugees in and beyond Europe in the years 1951 to 1975. This research 
 draws on the extensive confidential individual case files held by UNHCR Re
 cords and Archives\, Geneva.\n\nLike his contribution to the book\, this c
 urrent project analyses the content and tone of letters that refugees wrot
 e to UNHCR from different parts of the world and the responses they elicit
 ed. Professor Gatrell discusses the expectation that the refugees vouchsaf
 e intimate details of their lives as a condition of being 'recognised' by 
 UNHCR and thus eligible for its assistance and protection. But recognition
  was not a one-way process: refugees reflected on their relationship with 
 its officials and sought to hold them to account.\n\nGatrell's approach is
  contextualised\; deliberately reflexive\; and interdisciplinary\, being i
 nformed by classic and ongoing scholarship in the humanities and social sc
 iences.
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LOCATION:Queen Elizabeth House - Seminar Room 1\, Seminar Room 1 Queen Eli
 zabeth House 4 Mansfield Road Oxford Oxfordshire OX1 3TB United Kingdom
SPEAKER:Emeritus Professor Peter Gatrell (University of Manchester)
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