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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827059103321

Titolo

Coming Home? . Volume 1 : conflict and return migration in the aftermath of Europe's twentieth-century civil wars / / edited by Sharif Gemie and Scott Soo ; with Norry LaPorte

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2013

ISBN

1-4438-6430-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 p.)

Disciplina

305.906914

Soggetti

Refugees - Europe - History - 20th century

Refugees - France - History - 20th century

Refugees - Africa, North - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""EDITORSà‚€? PREFACE""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""PART I""; ""CHAPTER ONE""; ""CHAPTER TWO""; ""CHAPTER THREE""; ""CHAPTER FOUR""; ""CHAPTER FIVE""; ""CHAPTER SIX""; ""PART II""; ""CHAPTER SEVEN""; ""CHAPTER EIGHT""; ""CHAPTER NINE""; ""CHAPTER TEN""; ""CHAPTER ELEVEN""; ""CHAPTER TWELVE""

Sommario/riassunto

The wars of the twentieth century uprooted people on a previously unimaginable scale to the extent that being a refugee became an increasingly widespread experience. With the arrival of refugees, governments of host countries had to mediate between divided national populations: some wished to welcome those arriving in search of refuge; others preferred a strategy of exclusion or even expulsion. At the same time, refugees had to manage conflicts of the self as they responded to the loss of nationhood, families, socio-political networks, material goods, and arguably also a sense of belonging or