Introduction 1 Prelude to Disaster: Finance Capitalism and the Political Economy of Imperial Collapse 2 Resettlement Regimes and Empire: The Politics of Caring for Ottoman Refugees 3 Traveling the Contours of an Ottoman Proximate World 4 Transitional Migrants: The Global Ottoman Refugee and Colonial Terror 5 Missionaries at the Imperial Ideological Edge Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
Investigates how refugees of the Ottoman Empire have affected global events from 1878 to the Second World War.
Isa Blumi is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Area Studies, Leipzig University, Germany and Associate Professor of History at Georgia State University, USA.
Blumi (Georgia State Univ., Reinstating the Ottomans, 2011) has
written a very sophisticated analysis of refugees during the late-
and post-Ottoman periods that shows the complexities of refugee
identity within the empire. In doing so, he recognizes the role
played by the linguistic, religious, and ethnic diversity of these
people, which at times finds the various interests and identities
of refugees pitted against each other. Throughout the work, Blumi
highlights the trauma of the Ottoman refugee studies, it gives the
readers a larger perspective of the refugee experience, not one
limited geographically or otherwise. Blumi, whose vast linguistic
abilities allow him to reach across the empire from Albania to
Yemen, adds a much-needed theoretical foundation to the study of
Ottoman refugees. He shows how refugees in their struggle to
survive were forced to contend with the interests of global
capitalism in both the nation-states arising from the Ottoman
Empire and elsewhere, especially Latin America. Valuable for
students of Ottoman history as well as most general refugee
studies. Summing Up: Highly recommended.
*CHOICE*
This study examines many refugee groups and geographic regions and
taps into multiple historiographical debates, whether on violence,
integration, or Subaltern agency. The unifying theme of global
capitalism holds these eclectic pieces together very well in a
complicated narrative. This thought-provoking work should be of
interest not only to Ottoman and Middle Eastern specialists but
also to theorists in refugee studies, world historians, and
students of global capitalism.
*Journal of Refugee Studies*
Blumi’s book is a valuable contribution to Ottoman studies … It
addresses issues that had been only occasionally scrutinized, and
it provides valuable insights. It is also an effort to
'deorientalize' and 'de-provincialize' the Ottoman Empire. The
account is also a global history. Addressing international networks
and connections, it breaks down national borders that still
continue to shape historians’ perceptions, consciously or
unconsciously.
*American Historical Review*
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