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Humanities 2018, 7(4), 91.
Big Powers, Small Islands, Real Displaced People. Response to Gettel, Eliza. Recognizing the Delians Displaced after 167/6 BCE. Humanities 2018, 7, 91
School of History, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland
Humanities 2020, 9(3), 60; https://doi.org/10.3390/h9030060
Received: 11 June 2020
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Accepted: 28 June 2020
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Published: 9 July 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Displacement and the Humanities: Manifestos from the Ancient to the Present)
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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Keywords:
displacement; refugee definition; Delians; Chagos Islands
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Glynn I. Big Powers, Small Islands, Real Displaced People. Response to Gettel, Eliza. Recognizing the Delians Displaced after 167/6 BCE. Humanities 2018, 7, 91. Humanities. 2020; 9(3):60. https://doi.org/10.3390/h9030060
Chicago/Turabian StyleGlynn, Irial. 2020. "Big Powers, Small Islands, Real Displaced People. Response to Gettel, Eliza. Recognizing the Delians Displaced after 167/6 BCE. Humanities 2018, 7, 91" Humanities 9, no. 3: 60. https://doi.org/10.3390/h9030060
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