Forced Migration and Displacement in the Middle East

Dawn Chatty, Displacement and Dispossession in the Modern Middle East. Oxford University Press, 2010.

William L. Cleveland and Martin P. Bunton, A History of the Modern Middle East, 6th ed. Routledge, 2016.

James L. Gelvin, The Modern Middle East: A History, 5th ed. Oxford University Press, 2020.

Donald Quataert, The Ottoman Empire, 1700–1922, 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Recommended background: Ottoman History Podcast, “The Making of the Islamic World.”

Recommended background: Donald Quataert, “Ottoman History Writing and Changing Attitudes Towards the Notion of ‘Decline,’” History Compass 1 (2003).

Ehud R. Toledano, The Ottoman Slave Trade and Its Suppression, 1840–1890. Princeton University Press, 1982, selections.

Michael Ferguson and Ehud Toledano, “Slavery and Emancipation in the Late Ottoman Empire,” The Cambridge World History of Slavery, volume 4 (2017), pp. 174–196.

Ayşegül Kayagil, “Vocabularies of (in)Visibilities: (Re)Making the Afro-Turk Identity,” Antropologia 7 (2020), pp. 45–66.

Convention Concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations (Lausanne, January 30, 1923).

Michael Ferguson, “Kurds in the History of Displacement in Izmir, 1850–present,” Kurds in Dark Times. Syracuse University Press, 2023, pp. 119–139.

Deniz Yukseker and K. T. Brewer, “Astray and Stranded at the Gates of the European Union,” New Perspectives on Turkey 44 (2011), pp. 129–159.

Brian Aboud, “Power, Immigration and the ‘Prescribed Amount’ Rule,” Canadian Ethnic Studies 46 (2015), pp. 67–85.

Assigned films: The Swimmers (2022); Notes on Dispossession (2022).