Sympathy and Exclusion
The Migration of Child and Women Survivors of the Armenian Genocide from the Eastern Mediterranean to Canada, 1923–1930
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13075628 |
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| Authors | Daniel Ohanian (0000-0002-5807-4278, University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 197-215 |
| Publication date | 2018-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Genocide Studies International (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2291-1855 • E-ISSN: 2291-1847 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/gsi.11.2.04 |
| OpenAlex | W2792049309 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
In 1918, some 500,000 Ottoman Armenians found themselves displaced from their homes or living in Muslim households in the Eastern Mediterranean and the South Caucasus. For most, life did not return to normal after WWI. Rather, new wars, war scares, political maneuverings, economic policies, famines, and epidemics during 1918–1930 resulted in a long-term refugee crisis that was responded to by a large number of Armenian and non-Armenian organizations. This article looks at one such response: the humanitarian relocation to Canada of 110 boys and 39 girls and women all genocide refugees and most of them orphans. It traces how this relocation campaign was realized despite Canadian immigration authorities’ long-standing efforts to keep Asians, the impoverished, and the stateless from entering the country. Breaking with the often simplistic and celebratory tone of the literature on humanitarian aid to Ottoman Armenians, this article discusses how the Canadian fundraising campaigns of 1880–1922 were a liability for this subsequent relocation project, and it pays special attention to the people and ideas that opposed it
Ancient history · Armenian · Criminology · Development economics · Economic growth · Genocide · Immigration · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Relocation · Sociology · Gender Studies · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Religion, Society, and Development
A Ride through Asia Minor and Armenia
Uprooted
Refugees in the Age of Total War
Imagining Armenia. Orientalism, Ambiguity and Intervention
Approaching Ottoman History. An Introduction to the Sources
Recent Studies in Modern Armenian History
Rejecting “Misfits
Enforcing the Borders
A World Mission
The Armenian Genocide, AKA the Elephant in the Room
Reluctant Host
Gender, nationalism, exclusion
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