Description

Dr. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky will present his book, Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (Stanford University Press, 2024), which reveals the origins of refugee resettlement in the modern Middle East. The book demonstrates that, in the late nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire created a refugee regime, predating refugee protections set up by the League of Nations and the United Nations. Grounded in archival research in ten countries, this book examines the migration of about a million Muslim refugees from Russia to the Ottoman Empire and rewrites the history of Muslim migration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Bio

Dr. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky is Assistant Professor of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a historian of migration and displacement in the modern Middle East and the Caucasus.