This volume offers a new history of Europe's mid-20th century as seen through the lens of its recurrent refugee crises. Borrowing from and adapting E. H. Carr's The Twenty Years' Crisis, the editors of this volume conceive of the two post-war eras as a single 'forty years' crisis', which enables them not only to explore the continuities and disjunctures across the period but also to challenge established historiographical certainties and master narratives. As the essays in this volume show, the story of the 'forty years' crisis' can be told in very different ways: as one of upheaval, disintegration and suffering, or as one of newly emerging national and international solutions and possibilities; as a 'top-down' history of nations, institutions and policies, or as a 'bottom-up' history of refugees, relief workers and refugee advocates; by assessing the historical developments themselves or their historiographical afterlives. This volume is unique in that it brings these different perspectives together and provides a coherent intellectual framework within which they can be made sense of. Refugees in Twentieth-Century Europe represents the first comprehensive treatment of refugees in Europe of this breadth and depth for over a generation. It will provide an indispensable research guide for students of migration, nationalism and international diplomacy in 20th-century Europe, and an up-to-date overview of current research for specialists. As such it will make a major contribution to European and international history.
Author(s): Matthew Frank, Jessica Reinisch
Edition: 1
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic | Bloomsbury Publishing
Year: 2017
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF
Pages: 269
Tags: Refugees: Europe: 20th Century; Refugees; Europe
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1 ‘The Story Stays the Same’? Refugees in Europe from the ‘Forty Years’ Crisis’ to the Present
Chapter 2 Refugees: The Timeless Problem
Chapter 3 The Forty Years’ Crisis: Making the Connections
Chapter 4 Writing Refugee History – Or Not
Chapter 5 The Imperial Refugee: Refugees and Refugee-Creation in the Ottoman Empire and Europe
Chapter 6 The Forty Years’ Crisis: The Jewish Dimension
Chapter 7 The League of Nations, Refugees and Individual Rights
Chapter 8 The Myth of ‘Vacant Places’: Refugees and Group Resettlement
Chapter 9 Old Wine in New Bottles? UNRRA and the Mid-Century World of Refugees
Chapter 10 The United States and the Forty Years’ Crisis
Chapter 11 The Empire Returns: ‘Repatriates’ and ‘Refugees’ from French Algeria
Chapter 12 Colonialism, Sovereignty and the History of the International Refugee Regime
Bibliography
Index