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.

“This volume is an honest example of the difficulties and possibilities for a project aiming for realistic and reliable analysis in the context of dominant nationalist discourses informing research within the boundaries of separate nation-states…One can only hope that, once initiated, such holistic and inclusive dialogue across nation-state borders would expand.” • Journal of Refugee Studies“This volume is a long overdue endeavour to tackle the thorny and delicate issue of the compulsory population exchange…The argumentative force of the volume lies in the careful analysis of the contradictory and ambiguous ramifications of the convention.” • The Greek Review of Social Research>

• Notes on Terminology and OrthographyPrefaceRenée HirschonAcknowledgementsMap of Greece and TurkeyPART I: INTRODUCTION: BACKGROUND AND OVERVIEWChapter 1. 'Unmixing Peoples' in the Aegean RegionRenée HirschonChapter 2. Consequences of the Lausanne Convention: An OverviewRenée HirschonPART II: POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND POLICY ASPECTSChapter 3. Lausanne Revisited: Population Exchanges in International Law and PolicyMichael BarutciskiChapter 4. The Consequences of the Exchange of Populations for TurkeyÇagclar KeyderChapter 5. 1922: Political Continuations and Realignments in the Greek StateThanos VeremisChapter 6. Economic Consequences following Refugee Settlement in Greek Macedonia, 1923–1932Elisabeth KontogiorgiChapter 7. Homogenising the Nation, Turkifying the Economy: The Turkish Experience of Population Exchange ReconsideredAyhan AktarChapter 8. The Story of Those Who Stayed: Lessons From Articles 1 and 2 of the 1923 ConventionBaskin OranChapter 9. Religion or Ethnicity: The Identity Issue of the Minorities in Greece and TurkeyAlexis AlexandrisChapter 10. Inter-war Town Planning and the Refugee Problem in Greece: Temporary 'Solutions' and Long-Term DysfunctionsAlexandra YerolymposChapter 11. When Greeks Meet Other Greeks: Settlement Policy Issues in the Contemporary Greek ContextEftihia VoutiraPART III: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ASPECTSChapter 12. Housing and the Architectural Expression of Asia Minor Greeks Before and After 1923Vassilis ColonasChapter 13. Space, Place and Identity: Memory and Religion in Two Cappadocian Greek SettlementsVasso StelakuChapter 14. Lessons in Refugeehood: The Experience of Forced Migrants in TurkeyTolga Köker (in collaboration with Leylâ Keskiner)Chapter 15. Muslim Cretans in Turkey: The Reformulation of Ethnic Identity in an Aegean CommunitySophia KoufopoulouChapter 16. The Exchange of Populations in Turkish Literature: The Undertone of TextsHercules MillasChapter 17. The Myth of Asia Minor in Greek FictionPeter MackridgeChapter 18. Between Orientalism and Occidentalism: The Contribution of Asia Minor Refugees to Greek Popular Song, and its ReceptionStathis GauntlettReferencesNotes on Contributors