Conclusion and legacies.

While it may not have acted as the only factor in the creation of refugees during the course of the twentieth century, the collapse of empire both inside and outside Europe played a major role in defining the last century as the one in which the refugees became an ever-present phenomenon globally. As the Preface and the individual essays, especially in parts one and two, make clear, two key issues fed the link between imperial collapse and the end of empire.