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Displacing Territory: Refugees in the Middle East

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2017

Karen Culcasi
Karen Culcasi*
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Department of Geology and Geography, West Virginia University, Morgantown, W.Va.; e-mail: karen.culcasi@mail.wvu.edu
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In the summer of 2015, the UN reported that there were more than 60 million refugees worldwide, making the current refugee crisis the largest in history. Though the refugee crisis is global, it has a particular regional and local geography that demands attention. As readers of IJMES undoubtedly know, this crisis has disproportionally affected people in the Middle East. Since the end of World War II, a majority of the world's refugees have originated from this region. Five years of war in Syria is the most recent cause of displacement, but the American-led Iraq War in 2003 and the displacement of Palestinians with the establishment of Israel in 1948 have produced tens of millions of refugees.

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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 49 , Issue 2 , May 2017 , pp. 323 - 326
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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