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UNINA9910485586103321 |
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When boat people were resettled, 1975-1983 : a comparative history of European and Israeli responses to the South-East Asian refugee crisis / / edited by Becky Taylor [and three others] |
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Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021] |
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©2021 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (246 pages) |
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Collana |
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Palgrave Studies in Migration History |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Refugees - Southeast Asia |
Refugees - Europe |
Refugees - Israel |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Historical Context and Events -- Refugees, Boat people, Expellees, Returnees or Migrants? -- One Resettlement Programme but Many Asylum Systems -- Key Themes -- Geo-politics and Historical Legacies -- National Contexts, Domestic Pressures -- 'Foreignness', Assimilation and Multiculturalism -- After Resettlement -- Chapter 2: France: Boat People Brought by Plane -- A Tailor-Made Welcome -- The Fiction of an Individual Refugee Application -- Colonial Issues -- The Cold War and Anti-communism -- An Allegedly Docile and Right-Wing Replacement Workforce -- The Politics of Human Rights: against 'Third-Worldism'. -- Turning a Blind Eye -- Asylum Applications Lodged with OFPRA -- Chapter 3: Germany: 'Refugie-surprise': The Unlikely Reception of Indochinese Boat People in Germany -- An Unlikely Reception -- The Entry of 'boat people' into West Germany -- Legacies of German Forced Migration -- International and Transnational Aspects -- Integration Policies and Practices -- Outlook -- Chapter 4: 'Our Most Foreign Refugees': Refugees from Vietnam in Britain -- Britain's Response to the Crisis -- Coming to Britain -- Dispersal -- Building a New Life in Britain -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: The Netherlands: 'Boat People' as Changemakers |
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in the Dutch Refugee System -- Migration and Refugee Politics Up to 1979 -- Refugees from Vietnam: Vessels and Symbolic Quotas -- New Care and Integration Programs for Refugees -- Refugees, Health Care and Gender Specific Persecution -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6: Israel: Asylum Without Refugee Status: Israel's Reception of Vietnamese Exiles -- The National Context: A Refuge State Without Refugees -- The Symbolic Gesture of Reception -- A Symbolic Reception: Memories Haunting the Jewish People. |
A Gesture Embedded in Geopolitical and Domestic (Symbolic) Imperatives -- Between the Moral Symbolic Gesture and Political Action -- Practices of Reception: Foreign olim -- Compassion and Othering -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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