War and Population Displacement: Lessons of History (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781845199012)

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 phenom

Author: Fernando Puell de la Villa
ISBN-10: 1845199014
ISBN-13: 9781845199012
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2018
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.25lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.80d

About the Author

Fernando Puell de la Villa is Professor of Military History at the University Institute General Gutierrez Mellado, Madrid. He has published extensively on military matters, and is President of the Spanish Association of Military History. David Garcia Hernan is Chairman of the Department of Humanities and Full Professor of Modern History at Carlos III University, Madrid. He has published widely on contemporary history and been a visiting researcher at the University of Chicago.