Crossing the Aegean

Renée Hirschon was educated at the universities of Cape Town, Chicago and Oxford. Intensive fieldwork among the Asia Minor refugees settled in Piraeus resulted in the monograph "Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe". She has been Senior Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, and Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of the Aegean. She is currently Senior Research Fellow at St Peter's College University of Oxford, Senior Member at St Antony's College University of Oxford and Research Associate at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford.

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Preface

Renée Hirschon



Acknowledgements

Map of Greece and Turkey



PART I: INTRODUCTION: BACKGROUND AND OVERVIEW



Chapter 1. 'Unmixing Peoples' in the Aegean Region

Renée Hirschon



Chapter 2. Consequences of the Lausanne Convention: An Overview

Renée Hirschon



PART II: POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND POLICY ASPECTS



Chapter 3. Lausanne Revisited: Population Exchanges in International Law and Policy

Michael Barutciski



Chapter 4. The Consequences of the Exchange of Populations for Turkey

Çagclar Keyder



Chapter 5. 1922: Political Continuations and Realignments in the Greek State

Thanos Veremis



Chapter 6. Economic Consequences following Refugee Settlement in Greek Macedonia, 1923–1932

Elisabeth Kontogiorgi



Chapter 7. Homogenising the Nation, Turkifying the Economy: The Turkish Experience of Population Exchange Reconsidered

Ayhan Aktar



Chapter 8. The Story of Those Who Stayed: Lessons From Articles 1 and 2 of the 1923 Convention

Baskin Oran



Chapter 9. Religion or Ethnicity: The Identity Issue of the Minorities in Greece and Turkey

Alexis Alexandris



Chapter 10. Inter-war Town Planning and the Refugee Problem in Greece: Temporary 'Solutions' and Long-Term Dysfunctions

Alexandra Yerolympos



Chapter 11. When Greeks Meet Other Greeks: Settlement Policy Issues in the Contemporary Greek Context

Eftihia Voutira



PART III: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ASPECTS



Chapter 12. Housing and the Architectural Expression of Asia Minor Greeks Before and After 1923

Vassilis Colonas



Chapter 13. Space, Place and Identity: Memory and Religion in Two Cappadocian Greek Settlements

Vasso Stelaku



Chapter 14. Lessons in Refugeehood: The Experience of Forced Migrants in Turkey

Tolga Köker (in collaboration with Leylâ Keskiner)



Chapter 15. Muslim Cretans in Turkey: The Reformulation of Ethnic Identity in an Aegean Community

Sophia Koufopoulou



Chapter 16. The Exchange of Populations in Turkish Literature: The Undertone of Texts

Hercules Millas



Chapter 17. The Myth of Asia Minor in Greek Fiction

Peter Mackridge



Chapter 18. Between Orientalism and Occidentalism: The Contribution of Asia Minor Refugees to Greek Popular Song, and its Reception

Stathis Gauntlett



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