Forced Displacement in History: Some Recent Research

The Long-Run Effects of Immigration: Evidence Across a Barrier to Refugee Settlement

“…The recent literature on the economic effects of forced migration as a consequence of wars, civil conflicts, or natural disasters is surveyed in Becker and Ferrara (2019), Verme andSchuettler (2021), andBecker (2022). Two more closely related papers focusing on local, long-run effects are Sarvimäki (2011) and Murard and Sakalli (2018).…”

Persecution, Pogroms and Genocide: A Conceptual Framework and New Evidence

“…At the same time, the Great Migration increased support for civil rights not only in the Black electorate but was also shared by segments of the white population socially (and economically) isolated and congregating in ghettos. It also covers the case of reservations where indigenous populations were ghettoized (see Becker (2022) for references to the treatment of indigenous populations). In this case, there is widespread discrimination that only occasionally descends into scattered instances of lynchings and pogroms.…”

The issues of diaspora and displacement in Elif Shafak's The Island of Missing Trees

“…The physical dislocation of people from their homeland either by force or by their own choice creates a number of problems socially and psychologically (Hafsi, 2017). Forced displacement as a consequence of wars, civil conflicts, or natural disasters does not only have contemporaneous consequences but also long-run repercussions (Becker, 2022). Becker…”