Across the Aegean: A Century of Forced Migrations Between Greece and Turkey, 1922-2022 (British School at Athens - Modern Gr nd Byzantine Studies)

For a century, the Aegean has stood as both a border and a bridge.The 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey - the forced relocation of over a million Christians to Greece and some 400,000 Muslims to Turkey - transformed both states and societies.Refugee movements from occupied Greece to neutral Turkey during the Second World War, and more recently the crossings from Turkey to Greece of Syrians and others during ‘Europe’s refugee crisis’, highlight the Aegean as a recurring site of forced migration.Today, the region remains defined by militarised borders and the criminalisation of humanitarian actors. This book investigates the major forced population movements across the Aegean in the last 100 years.It uses the 1922-1923 forced population exchange as an intellectual point of departure to investigate the multiple refugee movements across the Aegean and their interconnections.It addresses the forced displacement of not only Turks and Greeks but also Jewish people and Syrians