The Birth of the Refugee Figure in the 1970s - ONLINE

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Join us for a GHIL Lecture in cooperation with the Modern German History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research given by Isabella Löhr.

The twentieth century is normally considered the century of the refugee, beginning with the mass flight and expulsion of civilian populations in the First World War, and reaching its sad climax with millions of displaced people in the Second World War and its immediate aftermath. In the German discourse, however, the refugee appears as a socially relevant figure only from the beginning of the 1970s onwards, when an increasing number of refugees from non-European territories came to Europe. The lecture will explore this phenomenon by looking at how decolonization and the transformation of human rights policies and international migration regimes from the 1950s contributed to new perceptions of forced migration in European societies.Isabella Löhr is Professor of International History of the Twentieth Century at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut at the Freie Universität Berlin and head of the “Globalizations in a Divided World” department at the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History in Potsdam (ZZF). Her research focuses on the history of international organizations and international law, on transnational social movements, and on migration and refugee history.

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