| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , 2022
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource
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| Disciplina |
305.906914
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| Collana |
Histoire Series
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| Soggetto topico |
Refugees - Social conditions
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| ISBN |
3-8394-5927-3
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I The polysemic function (character) of camps -- Internment practices during the First and Second World Wars -- Austrians in Trinidadian internment during the Second World War -- Rehabilitation through labour -- United Nations versus the Federal Agency -- Can camp life create a common world? -- Part II (Dis)empowering role of humanitarian intervention -- Interventions by non-governmental organisations in state-run internment camps in France -- Reconstructing Lives, Creating Citizens -- Civilian internees, common criminals or dangerous communists? -- Vicious circles of disempowerment -- Enhancing agency and empowerment in refugee camps as total institutions - real or illusory? -- Part III Strategies of coping and resistance -- Undesirable asylum-seekers from National Socialist Germany in France -- Singing and dancing for freedom of movement -- Room(s) for children? -- Part IV Pathways and transitions -- Cycles of incarceration -- Forced to flee and deemed suspect -- Filling the gap -- The life and afterlife of a twentieth-century French camp: Gurs -- Hard time in the Big Easy -- Annex -- Index of Names -- Short Biographies of contributors and editors.
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| Record Nr. | UNISA-996500667103316 |
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Internment Refugee Camps : Historical and Contemporary Perspectives / / Gabriele Anderl, Linda Erker, Christoph Reinprecht
