The Invention of the Refugee

What is a refugee and when, why and how do societies create them? This project seeks to answer these questions by focusing on the agency of displaced minorities in early modern Europe (16th-18th centuries).

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David de Boer successfully defended his PhD Thesis at Leiden University and University of Konstanz

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