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This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched.
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 this 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.
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Notes on Contributors
1. 'The Story Remains the Same'? Refugees in Europe from the 'Forty Years' Crisis' to Today (Jessica Reinisch, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK and Matthew Frank, Leeds University, UK)
2. Refugees: The Timeless Problem (Zara Steiner, Cambridge University, UK)
3. The Forty Years' Crisis: Making the Connections (Peter Gatrell, Manchester University, UK)
4. Writing Refugee History, Or Not (Tony Kushner, Southampton University, UK)
5. The Imperial Refugee: Refugees or Refugee-Creation in the Ottoman Empire and Europe (Jared Manasek, Columbia University, USA)
6. The Forty Years' Crisis: The Jewish Dimension (Mark Levene, Southampton University, UK)
7. The League of Nations, Refugees and Individual Rights (Barbara Metzger, Cambridge University, UK)
8. The Myth of 'Vacant Places': Refugees and Group Resettlement (Matthew Frank, Leeds University, UK)
9. Old Wine in New Bottles? UNRRA and the Mid-Century World of Refugees (Jessica Reinisch, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK)
10. The United States and the Forty Years' Crisis (Carl Bon Tempo, University at Albany, USA)
11. The Empire Returns: 'Repatriates' and 'Refugees' from French Algeria (Claire Eldridge, Southampton University, UK)
12. Colonialism, Sovereignty and the History of the International Refugee Regime (Glen Peterson, University of British Columbia, Canada)
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