Who invented refugee protection? Eurocentrism and the history of the humanitarian movement
The first modern refugee institution Between 1774 and the First World War, more than four million Muslims from Crimea and the Caucasus were expelled from their homes, finding refuge in the Ottoman empire. Of these, close to 2 million left their homes in the Caucasus in the aftermath of the 1877-1878 Russo-Ottoman war, expelled from...
