Channelling Ottoman Armenian Refugees During the Hamidian Massacres
Immigration Restrictions and British Liberal Imperial Humanitarianism at Stake (1894–1898)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11944482 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stéphanie Prévost (0000-0003-3073-4534, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1081-1113 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-6534 • E-ISSN: 1743-9329 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03086534.2023.2182061 |
| OpenAlex | W4324071215 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 27 |
This article examines British refuge to Ottoman Armenians in the aftermath of the 1894–1897 Hamidian massacres, an episode absent from the historiography of Britain and refuge, and largely from historical refugee studies. Analysed against the backdrop of the restrictionist Aliens Bills (1894–1905), refuge offered by Britain to tens of thousands of Ottoman Armenians seems a contradiction in terms. This article seeks to go beyond this contradiction and reflects on why and how the British Conservative Prime Minister, originator of the 1894 Aliens Bill when still in the Opposition, actively helped channelling Ottoman Armenians outside of the Ottoman Empire. Rather than encouraging movement to Britain, Salisbury urged to propose a British tradition of welcome more in keeping with current sensibilities in terms of domestic immigration. In so doing, Salisbury first sought to revive a tradition of British refuge as imperial. As it largely failed, he explored alternative, liminal loci (Bulgaria) outside of the formal Empire where British humanitarians, with the official support of the Foreign Office, might provide aid to Ottoman Armenian refugees – in the margins of international law. This case study thus offers new ways of envisaging British refuge in the late nineteenth century
Ancient history · Armenian · British Empire · Contradiction · Empire · Historiography · Nazism · Opposition (politics · Political science · Politics · Refugee · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Turkey's Politics and Society · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
The Thirty-Year Genocide
Armenia, Australia and the Great War
The Right to Asylum
The Colonial History of the 1905 Aliens Act
Against Massacre
Wop
Establishing a constitutional ‘right of asylum’ in early nineteenth-century Britain
It is quite impossible to receive them”
Lord Salisbury and the Ottoman Massacres
Empires in World History
The Ottoman Emigration to America,1860–1914
The Home Office and the Aliens Act, 1905
Travel Documents, Mobility Control, and the Ottoman State in an Age of Global Migration, 1880–1915
Governing the Armenian Question through Passports in the Late Ottoman Empire (1876-1908)
Frontières et pouvoir d'État
The Gladstone Government and the Cyprus Convention, 1880-85
The Concentration Camp as Site of Refuge
Faith in History
Faith in History
The Armenian Question Is Finally Closed
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |