A POST-IMPERIAL LENS ON DISPLACEMENT AND REFUGE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Journal: AAS working papers in social anthropology
Year: 2018

This paper will address how todayâs refugee regime and response to displacement in Middle East might have roots and precedents, but also ruptures with its Ottoman past. Imperial encounters with multiculturalism and ethnic diversity characterised the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires as well as the colonies that were ruled by European empires. Of all these colonial and imperial encounters, perhaps the Ottoman Empire was uniquely challenged to consider and implement systems of resettlement an