Big Powers, Small Islands, Real Displaced People. Response to Gettel, Eliza. Recognizing the Delians Displaced after 167/6 BCE. <i>Humanities</i> 2018, <i>7</i>, 91
Eliza Gettel’s paper on the displacement of the Delians in the second century BCE does an excellent job of examining an ancient case study of displacement through the lens of contemporary conceptions of displacement and asylum. In this paper, I try, as a modern historian of asylum, to reflect on the...
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| description | Eliza Gettel’s paper on the displacement of the Delians in the second century BCE does an excellent job of examining an ancient case study of displacement through the lens of contemporary conceptions of displacement and asylum. In this paper, I try, as a modern historian of asylum, to reflect on the applicability of modern classifications to a case study over 2000 years old. First, I discuss the compatibility of the ancient with the modern. Subsequently, I engage much more deliberately with the arguments Gettel presents in her paper. Finally, I introduce a contemporary case study involving the displacement of people from the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean that I argue shares some similarities with that of the Delians, with both cases highlighting the often-neglected agency of the displaced. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-add40714e17543a6952847eec7c83f5b2023-11-20T06:20:51ZengMDPI AGHumanities2076-07872020-07-01936010.3390/h9030060Big Powers, Small Islands, Real Displaced People. Response to Gettel, Eliza. Recognizing the Delians Displaced after 167/6 BCE. <i>Humanities</i> 2018, <i>7</i>, 91Irial Glynn0School of History, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, IrelandEliza Gettel’s paper on the displacement of the Delians in the second century BCE does an excellent job of examining an ancient case study of displacement through the lens of contemporary conceptions of displacement and asylum. In this paper, I try, as a modern historian of asylum, to reflect on the applicability of modern classifications to a case study over 2000 years old. First, I discuss the compatibility of the ancient with the modern. Subsequently, I engage much more deliberately with the arguments Gettel presents in her paper. Finally, I introduce a contemporary case study involving the displacement of people from the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean that I argue shares some similarities with that of the Delians, with both cases highlighting the often-neglected agency of the displaced.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/9/3/60displacementrefugee definitionDeliansChagos Islands |
| spellingShingle | Irial Glynn Big Powers, Small Islands, Real Displaced People. Response to Gettel, Eliza. Recognizing the Delians Displaced after 167/6 BCE. <i>Humanities</i> 2018, <i>7</i>, 91 Humanities displacement refugee definition Delians Chagos Islands |
| title | Big Powers, Small Islands, Real Displaced People. Response to Gettel, Eliza. Recognizing the Delians Displaced after 167/6 BCE. <i>Humanities</i> 2018, <i>7</i>, 91 |
| title_full | Big Powers, Small Islands, Real Displaced People. Response to Gettel, Eliza. Recognizing the Delians Displaced after 167/6 BCE. <i>Humanities</i> 2018, <i>7</i>, 91 |
| title_fullStr | Big Powers, Small Islands, Real Displaced People. Response to Gettel, Eliza. Recognizing the Delians Displaced after 167/6 BCE. <i>Humanities</i> 2018, <i>7</i>, 91 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Big Powers, Small Islands, Real Displaced People. Response to Gettel, Eliza. Recognizing the Delians Displaced after 167/6 BCE. <i>Humanities</i> 2018, <i>7</i>, 91 |
| title_short | Big Powers, Small Islands, Real Displaced People. Response to Gettel, Eliza. Recognizing the Delians Displaced after 167/6 BCE. <i>Humanities</i> 2018, <i>7</i>, 91 |
| title_sort | big powers small islands real displaced people response to gettel eliza recognizing the delians displaced after 167 6 bce i humanities i 2018 i 7 i 91 |
| topic | displacement refugee definition Delians Chagos Islands |
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