Refugees in Europe, 1919-1959 : a forty years' crisis? / / edited by Matthew Frank and Jessica Reinisch

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910597156803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [London], : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017
• ISBN: 1-4742-9573-8; 1-4725-8563-1; 1-4725-8564-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (258 pages)
• Altri autori (Persone): FrankMatthew James <1973->; ReinischJessica
• Disciplina: 362.870940904
• Soggetti: Refugees - Europe - History - 20th century; Europe Emigration and immigration
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 'The story stays the same'? Refugees in Europe from the 'Forty years' crisis' to the present / Jessica Reinisch and Matthew Frank -- Refugees : the timeless problem / Zara Steiner -- The Forty years' crisis : making the connections / Peter Gatrell -- Writing refugee history-or not / Tony Kushner -- The imperial refugee : refugees and refugee-creation in the Ottoman empire and Europe / Jan Manasek -- The Forty years' crisis : the Jewish dimension / Mark Levene -- The League of Nations, refugees and individual rights / Barbara Metzger -- The myth of 'vacant places' : refugees and group resettlement / Matthew Frank -- Old wine in new bottles? UNRRA and the mid-century world of refugees / Jessica Reinisch -- The United States and the Forty years' crisis / Carl J. Bon Tempo -- The empire returns : 'repatriates' and 'refugees' from French Algeria / Claire Eldridge -- Colonialism, sovereignty and the history of the international refugee regime / Glen Peterson.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Refugees in Europe, 1919-1959 offers a new history of Europe's mid-20th century as seen through its recurrent refugee crises. By bringing together in one volume recent research on a range of different contexts of groups of refugees and refugee policy, it sheds light on the common assumptions that underpinned the history of refugees throughout the ; period under review. The essays foreground the period between the end of the First World War, which inaugurated a series of new international structures to deal with displaced populations, and the late 1950s, when Europe's home-grown refugee problems had supposedly been 'solved' and attention shifted from the identification of an exclusively European refugee problem to a global one. Borrowing from E. H. Carr's The Twenty Years' Crisis, first published in 1939, the editors of the volume test the idea that the two post-war eras could be represented as a single crisis of a European-dominated international order of nation states in the face of successive refugee crises which were both the direct consequence of that system and a challenge to it. Each of the chapters reflects on the utility and limitations of this notion of a 'forty years' crisis' for understanding the development of specific national and international responses to refugees in the mid-20th century. Contributors to the volume also provide alternative readings of the history of an international refugee regime, in which the non-European and colonial world are assigned a central role in the narrative."--Bloomsbury Publishing.