Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State - a discussion with author Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky

Book Series | "Mass Violence, Displacement and Resiliency: Perspectives on Human Geography of Eastern Anatolia, Iran, and North Caucasus"

Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State

"Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million North Caucasian Muslims sought refuge in the Ottoman Empire. This resettlement of Muslim refugees from Russia changed the Ottoman state. Circassians, Chechens, Dagestanis, and others established hundreds of refugee villages throughout the Ottoman Balkans, Anatolia, and the Levant. Most villages still exist today, including what is now the city of Amman. Muslim refugee resettlement reinvigorated regional economies, but also intensified competition over land and, at times, precipitated sectarian tensions, setting in motion fundamental shifts in the borderlands of the Russian and Ottoman empires."

"The book thrusts the North Caucasus firmly into the center of immigration and diasporic studies, and it reminds us of the contribution of Ottoman-Russian relations for the history of international law and humanitarian relief."―Lucien Frary, The Russian Review

VLADIMIR HAMED-TROYANSKY, Assistant Professor, Department of Global Studies, UC Santa Barbara.  He is a historian of global migration and forced displacement. His research examines Muslim refugee migration and its role in shaping the modern world, and he is currently working on a transnational history of Muslim displacement in the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia since 1850.

Discussion moderator: Güneş Murat Tezcür, Director and Professor, ASU School of Politics and Global Studies

For those not able attend in person, the session will also be held on Zoom at https://asu.zoom.us/j/2547561917.

This event is co-sponsored by the:
* ASU School of Politics and Global Studies and the
* ASU Melikian Center: Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies