Human Capital: A History of Putting Refugees to Work by Robson, Laura

Human Capital: A History of Putting Refugees to Work (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781804290217)

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Human Capital: A History of Putting Refugees to Work by Robson, Laura

Human Capital: A History of Putting Refugees to Work

$34.95
Human Capital: A History of Putting Refugees to Work by Robson, Laura

Human Capital: A History of Putting Refugees to Work

$34.95
Format: Hardcover
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HOW GLOBAL HUMANITARIANISM TURNS REFUGEES INTO CHEAP LABOR

Historian Laura Robson unveils the dark heart of our purportedly humanitarian international regime. Tracing the century-long history of attempts to remake refugees into disposable migrant labor, Robson elucidates global humanitarianism's deep-seated commitment to refugee exploitation and containment.

Surveying more than a hundred years of policy across the globe, Robson captures the travails of Balkan refugees in the late Ottoman Empire, Roosevelt's secret plans to use German Jewish refugees as laborers in Latin America, and contemporary European efforts to deploy Syrians as low-wage workers in remote regions of Jordan.

The advent of internationalist refugee aid has long been told as an inspirational story in which reformers fought tirelessly for a system that would recognize and guarantee the rights of displaced and dispossessed people. But as Robson demonstrates, the motives behind modern refugee policy can be mercenary. Refugees have become easy prey for global industrial capitalism.

Author: Laura Robson
ISBN-10: 1804290211
ISBN-13: 9781804290217
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 11/28/2023
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.00d
By Laura Robson
By Laura Robson
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Laura Robson is the Oliver-McCourtney Professor of History at Penn State University and a recent Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. She has written and edited five books on Middle Eastern and global history, including most recently The Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle East (2020) and Partitions: A Transnational History of Twentieth Century Territorial Separatism (with Arie Dubnov, 2019). She is co-founder and co-editor of StatelessHistories.org.

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