Livre | « L’exil russe. La fabrique du réfugié apatride »
▻http://asile.ch/2016/05/06/livre-lexil-russe-la-fabrique-du-refugie-apatride
Au croisement du droit, de la diplomatie et de la sociologie, Catherine Gousseff nous relate l’élaboration du statut de réfugié. Elle met particulièrement en avant l’assistance des associations caritatives et le rôle politique des élites russes auprès de la Société des nations.
Historicizing concepts in refugee history
Historicizing past events is a double bind. It requires us to understand our object of interest in historical context, both in its contemporary situation and in the chronological development of history. It means, interpreting the socio-political constellation of the past and relating it to the present. Historicizing then describes an attempt at counteracting projections of current concepts into history without divorcing the relevance of the past from the present. To better understand the present through historical interpretation, we need to rethink familiar and fundamental concepts to go beyond the limits of our own historical container. Thus, refugee history forces us to re-think concepts such as ‘refugee’, ‘protection’, and ‘migration’.
▻http://refugeehistory.org/blog/2017/7/24/historicizing-concepts-in-refugee-history