Origins of 'Ethnic Cleansing'

Podcast: History As It Happens · Martin Di Caro

Opublikowano: 2026-09-29

Subscribe today to skip ads and get all of our bonus content. Help the podcast survive and thrive! As some Israeli government ministers call for the "voluntary migration" of all Palestinians from Gaza, the term ethnic cleansing is back in the news. Before the 1990s, international institutions and mainstream political figures seldom used the term. Then came the Serb atrocities in Croatia and Bosnia, and ethnic cleansing gained wide acceptance. What does it mean? Does it have a legal grounding? Or is it a euphemism for genocide? Our guest is sociologist Martin Shaw, a leading gen...