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This special issue approaches the study of refugees and forcibly displaced persons in the Middle East beyond the analytic bounds dictated by states, nations and regions. Each author is interested in showing connections, influences, and far-reaching consequences that cut across analytic boundaries. By challenging state-centred accounts and instead placing refugees, institutions, and states in a mutually interactive framework, each contributor frames refugees as the driving force behind various historical processes. By providing a range of case studies drawn from the Middle East, the volume also marks a step away from the Euro-centrism that so often defines the study of refugees and shows the centrality of the developments in Europe for the Middle East and the developments in the Middle East for Europe. We therefore propose the connected histories of refugeedom as the historiographical way forward in the study of refugees.  Table of Contents   Open access   The Special Issue ‘Forced Migration and Refugeedom in the Modern Middle East’ Towards Connected Histories of Refugeedom in the Middle East By: Jordi Tejel and Ramazan Hakkı ÖztanPages: 1–15Publication Date: 17 Feb 2020 Accès limité   International Relief Operations in Palestine in the Aftermath of the First World War: the Discrepancy between International Humanitarian Organisations’ Visions, Ambitions, and Actions By: Davide RodognoPages: 16–39Publication Date: 17 Feb 2020 Open access   Citizen Strangers: Identity Labelling and Discourse in the French Mandatory Syria, 1920–1932 By: Victoria AbrahamyanPages: 40–61Publication Date: 17 Feb 2020 Accès limité   Proto-Refugees? Palestinian Arabs and the Concept of Statelessness before 1948 By: Laura RobsonPages: 62–81Publication Date: 17 Feb 2020 Open access   Settlement Law of 1934: Turkish Nationalism in the Age of Revisionism By: Ramazan Hakkı ÖztanPages: 82–103Publication Date: 17 Feb 2020 Accès limité   The Second Exchange: Ottoman Greeks and the American Deportation State during the 1930s By: Chris Gratien and Emily K. Pope-ObedaPages: 104–128Publication Date: 17 Feb 2020 Accès limité   At ‘Home’ Away from ‘Home’: The ex-Ottoman Armenian Refugees and the Limits of Belonging in Soviet Armenia By: Ayşenur KorkmazPages: 129–150Publication Date: 17 Feb 2020