War and Population Displacement Lessons of History

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) recently announced that the number of displaced persons caused by wars and conflicts, estimated at more than 65 million, has reached "the highest level ever recorded". This book explores the reality by examining some significant population displacements and/or deportations caused by armed conflict. Throughout human history people not directly involved in wars have endured its consequences - death, famine, destruction, illness, pillage, rape, robbery. These effects of war have become more globalized, resulting in migration in search of a better place to live or to find safety and security. Migration represents an indisputable reality found in every time and culture since prehistoric times until today, seen recently in the Mediterranean, Africa, and Asia. Armed conflict brings with it population displacement: refugees fleeing the dangers of war, dislodgement by invaders or regime change, population migration with expansionist purposes. These phenomena have not been adequately studied from a historical perspective. Cast in the mold of war and society studies, this book, endorsed by the Spanish Association of Military History, works to fulfill a historiographic need, covering twelve relevant dislodgements caused by wars in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, Modern and Contemporary History, and the present.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Fernando Puell de la Villa (University Institute General Gutiérrez Mellado, Spain) & David García Hernán (Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain)
1. Deportations in the First Persian Empire: Affinities and Differences in Comparison with the Neo-Assyrian and Neo Babylonian Periods
Marc Mendoza Sanahuja (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)

2. Population Displacement under the Roman Republic (268 BC–19 AD)
Luis Silva Reneses (University of Geneva, Switzerland)

3. Mass Deportations in Syria and Northern Mesopotamia under the rule of Xusro Anoširvan (540-542) Katarzyna Maksymiuk (University of Siedlce, Poland)

4. Population Displacement in the course of Mexica Empire Expansion
Marco A. Cervera Obregon (Anahuac University, México) & Alan Barrera Huerta (Autonomous University of Mexico)

5. The Alpujarras War and the Granada Morisco Dispersion: Logistics and Population Displacement
Miguel Fernando Gómez Vozmediano (Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain)

6. The French Revolution, the War of the Pyrenees and the French Migration into Spain
Encarna Jarque Martínez & José Antonio Salas Ausens (University of Saragossa, Spain)

7. The Cuban Reconcentration Policy (1896–1898): An Uncomfortable Past
Fernando J. Padilla Angulo (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)

8. Population Displacement: A Collateral Effect of Aerial Bombardment?
Baptiste Colom-y-Canals (Air Force Research Center, France)

9. Second World War Refugees and the Origins of the International Organization for Migration
Emilio Redondo Carrero (University of Castile–La Mancha, Spain)

10. Refugees and Photography: Esthetic, Art and Pain Awareness
Pablo Rey García (Pontific University of Salamanca, Spain) & Pedro Rivas Nieto (Loyola University of Andalusia, Spain)

11. Middle East Palestinian Refugees: Return and Integration
María González-Ubeda Alferez (Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain)


12. Liberia and Ivory Coast Civil War Population Displacements: Causes and Risk Factors
Jara Cuadrado Bolaños (University Institute General Gutiérrez Mellado, Spain) & Susana Ferreira (Portuguese Institute for Foreign Relations, Portugal)

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