Section: Week 1 (2 September 2026) | HISTB319 Refugees and Modern Europe

Section outline

- Select activity Pre-Course Survey HISTB319 Refugees and Modern Europe
  
  Pre-Course Survey HISTB319 Refugees and Modern Europe Assignment
  
  Opened: Wednesday, August 26, 2026, 12:00 AM
  
  Due: Wednesday, September 2, 2026, 12:00 AM
  
  Please take a few minutes to fill out this survey before our first class session. It will help me get to know you and begin tailoring my teaching to your interests and needs. Your responses will not be shared with anyone.
  
  Please include the following pieces of information:
  
  • Your name:
  
  • How you would like to be addressed (nickname, pronouns, etc.)
  
  • Where are you from?
  
  • Your major(s) and minor(s) or those you are considering if you have yet to declare:
  
  • What challenges have you encountered in previous classes you have taken and how have you managed them?
  
  • What brought you to this class and what do you hope to get out of it?
  
  • What particular structures or practices best support or hinder your learning?
  
  • If I notice a change for the worse in your engagement over the course of the semester, what would be most useful for me to do?
  
  • What would you like me to know about you?
- Select activity Instructions & Reading Questions & Tasks to Prepare
  
  Instructions & Reading Questions & Tasks to Prepare File PDF
  
  Read these instructions, consider the questions, and identify one or two terms or historical events from the readings with which you were unfamiliar, look them up, and come to class prepared to explain it/them to one or two of your classmates.
  
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- Select activity Carr - "A Gated Continent,” Fortress Europe (2016)
  
  Carr - "A Gated Continent,” Fortress Europe (2016) File PDF
  
  Matthew Carr, “A Gated Continent,” Fortress Europe: Dispatches from a Gated Continent (2016), 11-24.
  
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- Select activity Zolberg - "Who is a Refugee," Escape from Violence (1989)
  
  Zolberg - "Who is a Refugee," Escape from Violence (1989) File PDF
  
  Astrid R. Zolberg et al., “Who is a Refugee”, Escape from Violence (1989), 3-33.
  
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- Select activity Gatrell, "Introduction," Making of the Modern Refugee (2013), 1-13
  
  Gatrell, "Introduction," Making of the Modern Refugee (2013), 1-13 File PDF
  
  Peter Gatrell, The Making of the Modern Refugee (2013), 1-13.
  
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- Select activity Elie, "Histories of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies" (2014)
  
  Elie, "Histories of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies" (2014) File PDF
  
  Jérôme Elie, “Histories of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies,” The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (2014), 23-32.
  
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- Select activity Class Notes - Refugees in Modern Europe - 2 September 2026
  
  Class Notes - Refugees in Modern Europe - 2 September 2026 URL
  
  This document is for us to crowd-source notes we take during class to track our discussion and open questions. I ask everyone to contribute if possible.