A Right to Flee

A Right to Flee
Author: Phil Orchard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2014-10-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107076250

This book examines the origins and evolution of refugee protection over the past four centuries.

Refugees in Inter-war Europe

Refugees in Inter-war Europe
Author: Claudena M. Skran
Publisher:
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1995
Genre: History
ISBN:

This book examines the refugee phenomenon, specifically refugees in inter-war Europe, and international responses to that phenomenon. It explores the causes and consequences of refugee movements throughout this century, analyzes international responses to European refugee movements from 1919 until 1939, and evaluates the impact of international efforts on government policy toward refugees. The major argument of this book is that international assistance efforts of the inter-war era composed an international regime, and this regime had--and continues to have-- significant impact on refugee policy.

Refugees, Self-Reliance, Development

Refugees, Self-Reliance, Development
Author: Easton-Calabria, Evan
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2022-06-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1529219116

Evan Easton-Calabria’s critical history of refugee self-reliance assistance brings new dimensions to refugee and international development studies. The promotion of refugee self-reliance is evident today, yet its history remains largely unexplored, with good practices and longstanding issues often missed. Through archival and contemporary evidence, this book documents a century of little-known efforts to foster refugee self-reliance, including the economic, political, and social motives driving this assistance. With five case studies from Greece, Tanzania, Pakistan, Uganda, and Egypt, the book tracks refugee self-reliance as a malleable concept used to pursue ulterior interests. It reshapes understandings of refugee self-reliance and delivers important messages for contemporary policy making.

The German Minority in Interwar Poland

The German Minority in Interwar Poland
Author: Winson Chu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2012-06-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107008301

Explores what happened when Germans from three different empires were forced to live together in Poland after the First World War.

Migration in the Southern Balkans

Migration in the Southern Balkans
Author: Hans Vermeulen
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2015-06-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3319137190

This open access book collects ten essays that look at intra-regional migration in the Southern Balkans from the late Ottoman period to the present. It examines forced as well as voluntary migrations and places these movements within their historical context, including ethnic cleansing, population exchanges, and demographic engineering in the service of nation-building as well as more recent labor migration due to globalization. Inside, readers will find the work of international experts that cuts across national and disciplinary lines. This cross-cultural, comparative approach fully captures the complexity of this highly fractured, yet interconnected, region. Coverage explores the role of population exchanges in the process of nation-building and irredentist policies in interwar Bulgaria, the story of Thracian refugees and their organizations in Bulgaria, the changing waves of migration from the Balkans to Turkey, Albanian immigrants in Greece, and the diminished importance of ethnic migration after the 1990s. In addition, the collection looks at such under-researched aspects of migration as memory, gender, and religion. The field of migration studies in the Southern Balkans is still fragmented along national and disciplinary lines. Moreover, the study of forced and voluntary migrations is often separate with few interconnections. The essays collected in this book bring these different traditions together. This complete portrait will help readers gain deep insight and better understanding into the diverse migration flows and intercultural exchanges that have occurred in the Southern Balkans in the last two centuries.

Refugees in Europe, 1919-1959

Refugees in Europe, 1919-1959
Author: Matthew Frank
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2017-09-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1472585631

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.

The Conditions of Democracy in Europe 1919-39

The Conditions of Democracy in Europe 1919-39
Author: D. Berg-Schlosser
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 519
Release: 2016-01-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0333993772

Why did democracy survive in some European countries between the wars while fascism or authoritarianism emerged elsewhere? This innovative study approaches this question through the comparative analysis of the inter-war experience of eighteen countries within a common comprehensive analytical framework. It combines (social and economic) structure- and (political) actor-related aspects to provide detailed historical accounts of each case which serve as background information for the systematic testing of major theories of fascism and democracy.

Refugee Economies

Refugee Economies
Author: Alexander Betts
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2017
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0198795688

This book explores the economic lives of refugees. It looks at what shapes the production, consumption, finance, and exchange activities of refugees, to explain variation in economic outcomes for refugees themselves.

Dark Continent

Dark Continent
Author: Mark Mazower
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 509
Release: 2009-05-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 030755550X

An unflinching and intelligent alternative history of the twentieth century that provides a provocative vision of Europe's past, present, and future. "[A] splendid book." —The New York Times Book Review Dark Continent provides an alternative history of the twentieth century, one in which the triumph of democracy was anything but a forgone conclusion and fascism and communism provided rival political solutions that battled and sometimes triumphed in an effort to determine the course the continent would take. Mark Mazower strips away myths that have comforted us since World War II, revealing Europe as an entity constantly engaged in a bloody project of self-invention. Here is a history not of inevitable victories and forward marches, but of narrow squeaks and unexpected twists, where townships boast a bronze of Mussolini on horseback one moment, only to melt it down and recast it as a pair of noble partisans the next.