Vorpahavak
{{Short description|Armenian genocide phrase}}
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Following the Armenian genocide, vorpahavak ({{langx|hy|որբահաւաք}}; {{lit|gathering of orphans}}) was the organized effort to rescue "hidden" Armenian women and children who had survived the genocide by being abducted and adopted into Muslim families and forcibly converted to Islam.
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- {{cite journal |last1=Adjemian |first1=Boris |last2=Suciyan |first2=Talin |title=Making space and community through memory:. Orphans and Armenian Jerusalem in the Nubar Library's photographic archive |journal=Études arméniennes contemporaines |date=2017 |issue=9 |pages=75–113 |doi=10.4000/eac.1129 |url=https://journals.openedition.org/eac/1129 |language=en |issn=2269-5281|doi-access=free }}
- {{cite journal |last1= Ekmekçioğlu |first1=Lerna|authorlink= Lerna Ekmekçioğlu |title=A Climate for Abduction, a Climate for Redemption: The Politics of Inclusion during and after the Armenian Genocide |journal=Comparative Studies in Society and History |date=2013 |volume=55 |issue=3 |pages=522–553 |doi=10.1017/S0010417513000236|jstor=23526015 |hdl=1721.1/88911|s2cid=145218244|issn=0010-4175|hdl-access=free }}
- {{cite book |last1=Maksudyan |first1=Nazan |author1-link=Nazan Maksudyan |title=Gendering Global Humanitarianism in the Twentieth Century: Practice, Politics and the Power of Representation |date=2020 |publisher=Springer International Publishing |isbn=978-3-030-44630-7 |pages=117–142 |language=en |chapter=The Orphan Nation: Gendered Humanitarianism for Armenian Survivor Children in Istanbul, 1919–1922}}
- {{cite book |last1=Naguib |first1=Nefissa |title=Interpreting Welfare and Relief in the Middle East |date=2008 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-16436-9 |pages=35–56 |doi=10.1163/ej.9789004164369.i-244.13 |chapter=A Nation Of Widows And Orphans: Armenian Memories Of Relief In Jerusalem}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Tachjian |first1=Vahé |title=Gender, nationalism, exclusion: the reintegration process of female survivors of the Armenian genocide |journal=Nations and Nationalism |date=2009 |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=60–80 |doi=10.1111/j.1469-8129.2009.00366.x}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Watenpaugh |first1=Keith David |title=The League of Nations' Rescue of Armenian Genocide Survivors and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism, 1920–1927 |journal=The American Historical Review |date=2010 |volume=115 |issue=5 |pages=1315–1339 |doi=10.1086/ahr.115.5.1315 |pmid=21246885 |doi-access=free }}
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