Interwar statistics, colonial demography, and the making of the twentieth-century refugee

IF 1.7 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
Anne Schult
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Abstract The historiography of the twentieth-century refugee typically unfolds as a tale of national displacement followed by international surrogate protection. This article challenges that narrative by reframing the modern refugee as an emerging category of statistics and demography. Focusing on the world’s first international refugee survey, which was led by former British colonial administrator John Hope Simpson in 1937–39, the article situates the attempt to count and classify refugees across borders within scientific debates on global population control and white resettlement. While refugees’ mobility initially eluded established parameters of national demographic measurement, Hope Simpson drew on precedents of census work and migration schemes within the British Empire to counter their unpredictability. Revealing how the tenet of colonial demography shaped mid-century views on the ‘refugee problem’, the article broadens the space of refugee history beyond nation states and international institutions and emphasizes the relevance of statistics in turning refugees into a global post-war category.
战争统计、殖民地人口统计和20世纪难民的形成
摘要20世纪难民的史学通常以国家流离失所和国际替代保护的故事展开。这篇文章通过将现代难民重新定义为一个新兴的统计和人口学类别来挑战这种说法。这篇文章聚焦于世界上第一次国际难民调查,该调查由前英国殖民地行政长官约翰·霍普·辛普森于1937-39年领导,将跨境难民的统计和分类尝试置于关于全球人口控制和白人重新安置的科学辩论中。虽然难民的流动性最初避开了国家人口测量的既定参数,但霍普·辛普森借鉴了大英帝国人口普查工作和移民计划的先例,以应对其不可预测性。这篇文章揭示了殖民地人口学的原则如何塑造了本世纪中叶对“难民问题”的看法,将难民历史的空间扩展到民族国家和国际机构之外,并强调了统计数据在将难民转变为战后全球类别方面的相关性。
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3.30
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5.30%
发文量
28
期刊介绍: Journal of Global History addresses the main problems of global change over time, together with the diverse histories of globalization. It also examines counter-currents to globalization, including those that have structured other spatial units. The journal seeks to transcend the dichotomy between "the West and the rest", straddle traditional regional boundaries, relate material to cultural and political history, and overcome thematic fragmentation in historiography. The journal also acts as a forum for interdisciplinary conversations across a wide variety of social and natural sciences. Published for London School of Economics and Political Science
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