Refugee States explores how the figure of the refugee and the concept of refuge shape the Canadian nation-state within a transnational context.

International law provides states with a common definition of a "refugee" as well as guidelines outlining how asylum claims should be decided. Yet even across n

The exodus of refugees from Nazi Germany in the 1930s has received far more attention from historians, social scientists, and demographers than many other migra

What explains the variety of responses that states adopt toward different refugee groups? Refugees might be granted protection or turned away; they might be per