Twentieth century divides into three eras of forced-migration norms

Evidence

In their 2011 book No Return, No Refuge: Rites and Rights in Minority Repatriation, Howard Adelman and Elazar Barkan propose a new periodization of the twentieth century based on legal and public definitions and perceptions of forced migration: 1900–45 when ‘the right to expel’ was considered an international norm; 1945–92 when under Cold War conditions ethnic cleansing was outlawed; and 1992 to the present, when reversing ethnic cleansing was declared a duty of the international community. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 1120

Categorization

  • DEFINE: Defines the tripartite periodization of expulsion norms useful for framing the chapter’s argument.
  • XREF: connects to: Postwar migration expanded in phases bounded by the 1973 oil crisis — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3860

Broader Connections