Washington History Seminar | Human Capital: A History of Putting Refugees to Work

Event Details

End: February 12, 2024
More Info: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_88LAHlXYRsSZxOo4XXY_Kg#/registration

Monday, February 12, 4 p.m. ET

Join Laura Robson (Penn. State Univ.), Dane Kennedy (George Washington Univ.), and Ilana Feldman (George Washington Univ.) for a discussion on Dr. Robson’s new book, Human Capital: A History of Putting Refugees to Work. The advent of internationalist refugee aid has long been told as an inspirational story of humanitarians fighting tirelessly for a system that would recognize and guarantee the rights of displaced and dispossessed people. But modern refugee policy has long had a different goal: to make use of refugees as cheap workers in an emerging system of global industrial capitalism. In Human Capital, Robson traces the century-long history of attempts to remake refugees as disposable migrant labor, revealing the deep-seated commitment to refugee exploitation and containment at the heart of a purportedly humanitarian international regime.