Ria Kapoor

Making Refugees in India

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Produktbeschreibung

Offering a global history of India's refugee regime, Making Refugees in India explores how one of the first postcolonial states during the mid-twentieth century wave of decolonisation rewrote global practices surrounding refugees - signified by India's refusal to sign the 1951 UN Refugee Convention.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 141mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9780192855459
• ISBN-10: 019285545X
• Artikelnr.: 62580622

Autorenporträt

Ria Kapoor completed a DPhil in History at the University of Oxford in 2019. She is now a Simon Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, and an editorial fellow with History Workshop Online.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: The Refugees' Imperial Past: The Search for Self-Determination in
Empire
* 2: Resisting an Alien Invasion of Principles: The Second World War
and the New World of the UN
* 3: Refugees to (Re)Build the Nation: Partition and the
Humanitarianism of Developing the Postcolony
* 4: A Nation-in-Exile in the Age on Non-Alignment: Rights for the
Tibetan refugees in India
* 5: 10 Million Reasons for Self-Determination: the 1971 East Pakistani
Crisis and its many Solutions
* Conclusion