Refugee Histories in the Global South
RSC Public Seminar Series, Hilary Term 2021

How does forced migration look different if we examine it through a historical perspective? How have refugees been historical actors, as well as victims? This series examines a range of topics that illuminate these questions, by examining the historical entanglements between migration, im/mobility, colonialism, race, and borders.

Convenor: Dr. Anne Irfan

About the Speaker

Mezna Qato is Margaret Anstee Fellow at Newnham College, University of Cambridge. She is a social historian of the modern Middle East. She is completing a book on the history of education for Palestinians, and co-convenes the ‘Archives of the Disappeared’ Research Network at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities at Cambridge.