Part I: Introductory Remarks 1. Introduction, Richard Bessel and Claudia B. Haake 2. Explaining Forced Migration, Alf Ludtke Part II: Forced Removal and Indigenous Peoples 3. On the Trail of Tears: Daniel Butrick's Record of the Removal of the Cherokees, Tim Alan Garrison 4. Breaking the Bonds of People and Land, Claudia B. Haake 5. The Federal Indian Relocation Programme of the 1950s and the Urbanization of Indian Identity, Donald L.

Fixico 6. Calculating Lives: The Number and Narrative of Removals in Queensland, 1859-1972, Mark Copland 7. The Slave Trade as Enforced Migration in the Central Sudan of West Africa, Paul E. Lovejoy Part III: Forced Removal and War 8. The Great Unweaving: The Removal of Peoples in Europe, 1875-1949, Donald Bloxham 9. Explaining Genocide: The Fate of the Armenians in the Late Ottoman Empire, Ronald Grigor Suny 10. Trial Run: The Deportation of the Terek Cossacks 1920, Shane O'Rourke 11. National and International Planning of the 'Transfer' of Germans from Czechoslovakia and Poland, Detlef Brandes 12.

'Nobody's People': The Dalits of Punjab in the Forced Removal of 1947, Gyanendra Pandey 13. The 1947 Partition of India and Migration: A Comparative Study of Punjab and Bengal, Ian Talbot 14. Explaining Transfer: Zionist Thinking and the Creation of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, Benny Morris Part IV: Forced Removal in Post-Colonial Times 15. Sustainable Violence: Mass Resettlement, Strategic Villages, and Militias in Anti-Guerrilla Warfare, Christian Gerlach 16. Coerced or Free? Narrating the Reverse Migrations of Decolonization, Andrea Smith Part V: Concluding Thoughts 17. Removing Peoples in the 'Modern' World: A Comparative Perspective, Joanna de Groot.