BookOpen Access
Kühne, Thomas (ed.) · Rein, Mary Jane (ed.) · Mamigonian, Marc A. (ed.), 2024
Palgrave Macmillan, Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide (open access book)
Fully open-access volume honoring Taner Akçam, the first Turkish intellectual to publicly recognize the Armenian Genocide, with fourteen chapters by leading scholars: gendered violence, humanitarianism and refugees, survivor diaries, property spoliation, resistance, and a historiographic survey of the field since the centennial. The entire book PDF is free to download.
Edited VolumePaywalled
Laycock, Joanne · Piana, Francesca, 2020
Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2020, 216 pp., ISBN 978-1-5261-4220-7 (Humanitarianism: Key Debates and New Approaches)
This ten-essay volume examines more than a century of humanitarian engagement with Armenia and Armenians, from the Hamidian massacres of the 1890s to the present day. The editors frame Armenia as a recurring focal point of international aid, tracing shifting transnational networks of relief across the Ottoman, Tsarist, Soviet, and post-independence periods. Geographically the chapters range across the Caucasus, Russia, the Middle East, Europe, North and South America, and Australia. Individual essays treat relief during the Hamidian massacres, Russian imperial responses, Norwegian relief operations, Australian and Brazilian campaigns, diaspora philanthropy, post-1988 earthquake aid, peacebuilding, and Syrian Armenian refugees. Closing reflections come from refugee historian Peter Gatrell and Armenian studies scholar Ronald Grigor Suny. The collection positions the Armenian case as central to the global history of humanitarianism rather than a footnote to it.
Journal ArticlePaywalled
Ohanian, Daniel, 2017
Genocide Studies International, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 197–215 (University of Toronto Press); DOI 10.3138/gsi.11.2.04
In 1918 some 500,000 Ottoman Armenians were displaced from their homes or living in Muslim households across the Eastern Mediterranean and South Caucasus, and for most life did not return to normal after the war. New wars, political manoeuvring, famine and epidemics produced a long-term refugee crisis. This article examines one response: the humanitarian relocation to Canada of 110 boys and 39 girls and women, all genocide refugees and most of them orphans. It traces how the campaign succeeded despite Canadian immigration authorities' long-standing efforts to exclude Asians, the impoverished and the stateless. Breaking with the celebratory tone of much humanitarian-aid literature, it shows how earlier Canadian fundraising campaigns became a liability, and attends closely to the people and ideas that opposed the project.
