REFUGEES AND THE NATIONSTATE

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REFUGEES AND THE NATION-STATE
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I WHO IS A REFUGEE? RELIGIOUS AND HISTORICAL
PERSPECTIVESThe Ancient GreeksJews and
ChristiansMuslims
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THE HUGUENOTS

• Who were the Huguenots?
• Why did the Huguenots Leave France?
• Persecution?
• Poverty?
• State Building and the Huguenots
• Two Big Points
• Quintessential Refugees
• Refugees as defined by Politics
• Glossary Edict of Nantes dragonnades 1555
  Peace of Augsburg, cujus regio ejus religio
  Hannah Arendt.

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THE BIG QUESTION

• What is Refugee Politics all About?
• Is it for me?

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II WHY DO REFUGEES LEAVE THEIR HOMES? REFUGEES
AND THE NATION-STATE

• What is the Nation-State?
• The state
• The nation
• The hyphen
• Realism, the Nation-State and Refugees
• Traditional Conservative Realists
• Modern Structural Realists
• Identity Politics and Refugees
• Rae Refutes the Realists
• Pathological Homogenisation
• Glossary Montevideo Convention Myron Weiner
  Heather Rae, State Identities and the
  Homogenization of Peoples

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Present day map of Turkey and Armenia, showing an
outline of Historic Armenia and Cilicia (little
Armenia).
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The Armenian Relocation to Nowhere

• What Happened? The First Genocide
• Why Did This Happen?
• Prior Persecution
• The Demise of the Ottoman Empire
• The Young Turks Party of Union and Progress (CUP)
• Turkification and the Armenian Threat

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Kosovo and the Breakup Of Yugoslavia

• What Happened? Refugees, Balkanisation and Ethnic
  Cleansing
• Why Did this Happen? Milosevic and the Build Up
  to 1999
• The Kosovo Myth Revitalised
• Serb Persecution
• Serb Jerusalem
• The Battle of Kosovo 1389
• Do Nation-States have to Create Refugees?
• Threshold Cases The Czech Republic and Macedonia

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THE BIG QUESTIONA Refugee Trading System

• Consider the two following market based
  approaches to the global refugee crisis.
• Auctioning off asylum
• A Refugee Trading Scheme (ETS)
• Do you think such a system would work? If it was
  clear that implementing such a system would
  increase the number of protection visas for
  refugees would you support it?