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A transnational history of forced migrants in Europe, unwilling nomads in the age of the two world wars, [edited by] Bastiaan Willems and Michal Palacz

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A transnational history of forced migrants in Europe

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[edited by] Bastiaan Willems and Michal Palacz

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unwilling nomads in the age of the two world wars

"This book is a vital exploration of the harrowing stories of mass displacement that took place in the first half of the 20th century from the perspective of forced migrants themselves. The volume brings together 15 interrelated case studies which show how the deportation, evacuation and flight of millions of people as a result of the First World War intensified rather than alleviated ethnic conflicts which culminated in population transfers on an even larger scale during and immediately after the Second World War. While each chapter focuses on a different group of refugees and displaced persons, the text as a whole looks at the experience of forced migration as a complex set of evolving relationships with the receiving society, the homeland, the broader diaspora and other migrant communities living within the same host country. This innovative, four-dimensional model provides an overarching conceptual framework that binds the chapters together within the longer arc of European history. By going beyond the conventional narratives of national victimhood and (un)successful assimilation of refugees, A Transnational History of Forced Migrants in Europe reveals that identities of forced migrants in the first half of the 20th century were individualised, hybrid and constantly reconstructed in response to socioeconomic forces and political pressures. The case studies collected in this volume further suggest that age, gender, social class, educational level and the personal experiences of 'unwilling nomads' are more important to the understanding of forced migration history than ethnoreligious identities of victims and perpetrators."--, Provided by publisher

Part I - Forced Migrants during the First World War. 1. War as a Model of Population Movement in the Modern World / Sergey Choliy (Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Russia) ; 2. Civilian Internment in Austria-Hungary 1914-1917: The Role of Citizenship / Egor Lykov (University of Vienna, Austria) ; 3. Between Suffering and Displacement: The Case of the Istrian / 'Evakuirci' Diego Han (University of Zagreb, Croatia) -- Part II - Political Emigrants in the Interwar Era. 4. Minority in Exile: The Julian March / âEmigrés in Yugoslavia and their 'enslaved brothers' in Italy / Miha Zobec (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia) ; 5. Ukrainian Emigration and the Weimar Republic: Partners and Agents of the German Foreign Policy / Veronika Dyminska (European University Viadrina Frankfurt, Germany) ; 6. The Protection of National Identity of Russian Emigrants' Children in the 1920s and 1930s / Aleksandra Mikulenok (Russian State University of Justice, Russia) -- Part III - Refugees from Fascist Europe. 7. Stefi Kiesler: A Librarian as 'Intellectual Refugee Service' / Jill Meissner-Wolfbeisser (University of Vienna, Austria) ; 8. Emigration Not Asylum: The Failures of the Evian Conference for European Children / Chelsea Sambells (University of Huddersfield, UK) ; 9. Refugees as Cultural Mediators in the Transit Country Portugal / Katrin Sippel (Austrian Society for Exile Studies, Austria) ; 10. Many Journeys of Exile: Spanish Republican Refugees in France, 1939-1946 / David Messenger (University of South Alabama, USA) -- Part IV - Displaced Persons during and after the Second World War. 11. Reclaimed for the Volk: Forced Migration and Assimilation in the Wartime Third Reich / Bradley J. Nichols (University of Missouri, USA) ; 12. Subjectification and Self-Organisation in the Jewish D.P. Camp Bergen-Belsen 1945-1950 / Lennart Onken (Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, Hamburg, Germany) ; 13. Resettling, Repatriating and Rehabilitating Polish Displaced Persons in British Occupied Germany / Samantha Knapton (University of East Anglia, UK) ; 14. From Flight and Expulsion to Organized Migration: The Colonization of 2,500 Danube Swabians in Entre Rios (Paraná, Brazil) in the early 1950s / Cristian Cercel (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany) -- 15. Anticommunists and Migrants in France / Aaron Clift (University of Oxford, UK) -- Conclusion / Pertti Ahonen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) -- Index