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"Refugees in Empire: Holocaust Refugees and British India"
Refugees in Empire investigates how imperial states administered refugees as they moved across the porous borders of empires. Centering the experiences of Holocaust refugees in British India, this dissertation investigates European, Indian, and British ideas of race and class in their relation to refugee movements in societies with strict, racialized social hierarchies. It asks, how did the interdependence between imperial states and their semi-sovereign or colonized territories impact the diverse structures and systems of laws and institutions that administer refugees to the present day? Moreover, how did Jewish refugees respond to and participate in their changing categorizations prior to and following the start of the Second World War?
Pragya Kaul is a Ph.D. Candidate in History.
