During the 1930s, thousands of social scientists fled the Nazi regime or other totalitarian European regimes, mainly towards the Americas. The New School for Social Research (NSSR) in New York City and El Colegio de México (Colmex) in Mexico City both were built based on receiving exiled academics from Europe.
Comparing the first twenty years of these organizations, this book offers a deeper understanding of the corresponding institutional contexts and impacts of emigrated, exiled and refugeed academics. It analyses the ambiguities of scientists’ situations between emigration, return‐migration and transnational life projects and examines the corresponding dynamics of application, adaptation or amalgamation of (travelling) theories and methods these academics brought. Despite its institutional focus, it also deals with the broader context of forced migration of intellectuals and scientists in the second half of the last century in Europe and Latin America. In so doing, the book invites a deeper understanding of the challenges of forced migration for scholars in the 21st century.
Author(s): Ludger Pries, Pablo Yankelevich
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Springer International Publishing,Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: XI, 301
Tags: Social Sciences; Migration; Diaspora; Sociology of Education; Sociology of Work; Political Sociology
Front Matter ....Pages i-xi
Exile Dynamics and Impacts of European Social Scientists Since the 1930s: Transnational Lives and Travelling Theories at El Colegio de México and the New School for Social Research in New York (Ludger Pries)....Pages 1-22
Crossroads: US and Mexican Reactions to Repression in Europe 1930–1939 (Katrin Möbius, Sascha Möbius)....Pages 23-67
Reflections on the New School’s Founding Moments, 1919 and 1933 (Ira Katznelson)....Pages 69-82
Refugee Scholars and the New School for Social Research in New York After 1933: Intellectual Transfer and Impact (Claus-Dieter Krohn)....Pages 83-109
“Agents” of “Westernization”?: The Impact of German Refugees of the Nazi Regime (Alfons Söllner)....Pages 111-129
The Holocaust and German-Jewish Culture in Exile (Enzo Traverso)....Pages 131-149
Waves of Exile: The Reception of Émigrés in Mexico, 1920–1980 (Pablo Yankelevich)....Pages 151-179
International Rescue of Academics, Intellectuals and Artists from Nazism During the Second World War: The Experience of Mexico (Daniela Gleizer)....Pages 181-203
The Institutional Reception of Spanish Émigré Intellectuals in Mexico: The Pioneering Role of La Casa de España, 1938–1940 (Clara E. Lida)....Pages 205-219
Two Aspects of Exile (Martí Soler)....Pages 221-234
José Gaos and José Medina Echavarría: The Intellectual Vocation (Andrés Lira)....Pages 235-260
The Constitution of Sociology at El Colegio de México: Two Key Intellectual Cohorts of Refugees and the Legacies They Left for Mexico and Latin America (Arturo Alvarado)....Pages 261-283
Comparing Contexts, Institutions and Periods of the Émigrés’ Arrival and Possible Return (Ludger Pries, Pablo Yankelevich)....Pages 285-295
Back Matter ....Pages 297-301
