During the 1920s and 30s, the US deported thousands of Greeks, and the Convention Concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations at Lausanne (1923) inadvertently aided in the process. But was the role of the postwar international system in this "second exchange" mere coincidence? This paper explores how the Treaty of Lausanne enabled the US to deport Ottoman Greek migrants during the era of the Great Depression, and through their case, it considers whether these latecomers to the Exchange of Populations were collateral damage of the war and its aftermath or part and parcel of its legacy.
Lecture: The Second Exchange: The Treaty of Lausanne and the Deportation of Greek Americans
Chris Gratien, University of Virginia
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Chris Gratien is an assistant professor in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. His research explores the social and environmental history of economic change and migration in the late Ottoman and post-Ottoman Middle East. He is also producer and co-creator of Ottoman History Podcast, an internet radio program which has featured the work of over 300 scholars and researchers since 2011.
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