Refugees in Europe, 1919-1959: a forty years’ crisis?
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Birkbeck College
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 1051
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- ISBN
- 9781472585639
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Interdisciplinary
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0
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- Additional information
- Refugees in Europe is the product of Jessica Reinisch’s long-standing collaboration with Matthew Frank, dating back to a 2010 conference organised with accompanying exhibitions at Birkbeck College and Leeds University. The editors prepared this volume at a time when refugees and migrants were forcing themselves back into Europeans’ consciousness, with millions seeking asylum in Europe and accompanying talk of ‘crisis’ and ‘unprecedented times’. The volume responds both to the ongoing perception of mass movements as an aberration, and to a historiography which remains largely episodic and nationally bounded, and fractured into work on specific groups of displaced people or sites of displacement. The editors together designed the volume so that it may help recognise different groups of refugees as part of shared historical processes. They commissioned a selection of eleven case studies to draw out continuities and shared assumptions about the management of refugees. They worked with contributors to test temporal and geographical parameters, as a result of which this volume on European history is contextualised in global developments, and Europeans’ connections with the rest of the world are foregrounded throughout. Contributors range from senior experts to junior scholars. Reinisch and Frank shared the editorial work and co-wrote the introductory chapter (9,500 words) and each contributed a chapter on their own case study. Reinisch’s chapter (15,000 words) shows that the UNRRA (a ground-breaking and unique, but short-lived, organisation) rested on assumptions that were ultimately overturned by the growing fallout between the Cold War superpowers and the creation of the Cold War refugee regime with the 1951 Refugee Convention. We are asking that this chapter be assessed alongside Reinisch’s substantial editorial work and her co-authored introductory chapter.
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