Crossing the Aegean: An Appraisal of the 1923 Compulsory Population Exchange Between Greece and Turkey (Studies in Forced Migration)

Annotation Following the defeat of the Greek Army in 1922 by nationalist Turkish forces, the 1923 Lausanne Convention specified the first internationally ratified compulsory population exchange. It proved to be a watershed in the eastern Mediterranean, having far-reaching ramifications both for the new Turkish Republic, and for Greece which hadto absorb over a million refugees. Known as the Asia Minor Catastrophe by the Greeks, it marked the establishment of the independent nation state for the Turks. The consequences of this event have received surprisingly little attention despite the considerable relevance for the contemporary situation in the Balkans. This volume addresses the challenge of writing history from both sides of the Aegean and provides, for the first time, a forum for multidisciplinary dialogue across national boundaries Contents List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Notes on Terminology and Orthography Preface Acknowledgements Map of Greece and Turkey I Introduction: Background and Overview 1 ‘Unmixing Peoples’ in the Aegean Region 2 The Consequences of the Lausanne Convention AN OVERVIEW II Political, Economic and Policy Aspects 3 Lausanne Revisited POPULATION EXCHANGES IN INTERNATIONAL LAW AND POLICY 4 The Consequences of the Exchange of Populations for Turkey 5 1922: Political Continuations and Realignments in the Greek State 6 Economic Consequences following Refugee Settlement in Greek Macedonia, 1923–1932 7 Homogenising the Nation, Turkifying the Economy THE TURKISH EXPERIENCE OF POPULATION EXCHANGE RECONSIDERED 8 The Story of Those Who Stayed LESSONS FROM ARTICLES 1 AND 2 OF THE 1923 CONVENTION 9 Religion or Ethnicity THE IDENTITY ISSUE OF THE MINORITIES IN GREECE AND TURKEY 10 Inter-war Town Planning and the Refugee Problem in Greece TEMPORARY ‘SOLUTIONS’ AND LONG-TERM DYSFUNCTIONS 11 When Greeks Meet Other Greeks SETTLEMENT POLICY ISSUES IN THE CONTEMPORARY GREEK CONTEXT III Social and Cultural Aspects 12 Housing and the Architectural Expression of Asia Minor Greeks Before and After 1923 13 Space, Place and Identity MEMORY AND RELIGION IN TWO CAPPADOCIAN GREEK SETTLEMENTS 14 Lessons in Refugeehood THE EXPERIENCE OF FORCED MIGRANTS IN TURKEY 15 Muslim Cretans in Turkey THE REFORMULATION OF ETHNIC IDENTITY IN AN AEGEAN COMMUNITY 16 The Exchange of Populations in Turkish Literature THE UNDERTONE OF TEXTS 17 The Myth of Asia Minor in Greek Fiction 18 Between Orientalism and Occidentalism THE CONTRIBUTION OF ASIA MINOR REFUGEES TO GREEK POPULAR SONG, AND ITS RECEPTION References Appendix Index Edited By Renée Hirschon. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [261]-279) And Index.