Episode 14: Writing Refugee History: Key Insights and New Horizons in Research, Guest: Peter Gatrell

In the 14th episode of the "Transit" podcast, Philipp Strobl talks to Peter Gatrell about what migration scholars can learn from a critical perspective on past refugee movements and the future of historiographical research on migration, flight and displacement. The episode also looks at marginalized migrant groups and discusses the importance of researching repatriation and return as part of migration history.

Redaktion: Philipp Strobl
Produktion: Magdalena Ragl

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Here you can listen to the episode with Peter Gatrell

Peter Gatrell is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Manchester and an Honorary Professor at the University of Bristol. His publications include A Whole Empire Walking: Refugees in Russia during World War 1 (Indiana University Press, 1999); Free World? The Campaign to Save the World's Refugees, 1956-1963 (Cambridge University Press, 2011); and The Making of the Modern Refugee (Oxford University Press, 2013). His book, The Unsettling of Europe: the Great Migration, 1945 to the Present, published by Penguin Books and Basic Books in 2019, was awarded the Nanovic Institute's Laura Shannon Prize and Italy’s ‘Premio Cherasco’. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He has directed several research projects including the AHRC-funded research project, ‘Reckoning with refugeedom, 1919-1975’, and the resulting book he has co-authored with Katarzyna Nowak, Lauren Banko and Anindita Ghoshal, Refugee Voices in Modern World History, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press in 2025. It includes some of his ongoing research in UNHCR Records and Archives, Geneva.