Refugees in Twentieth-Century Britain

Refugees in Twentieth-Century Britain
Author: Becky Taylor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2021-05-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1316990613

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This timely history explores the entry, reception and resettlement of refugees across twentieth-century Britain. Focusing on four cohorts of refugees – Jewish and other refugees from Nazism; Hungarians in 1956; Ugandan Asians expelled by Idi Amin; and Vietnamese 'boat people' who arrived in the wake of the fall of Saigon – Becky Taylor deftly integrates refugee history with key themes in the history of modern Britain. She thus demonstrates how refugees' experiences, rather than being marginal, were emblematic of some of the principal developments in British society. Arguing that Britain's reception of refugees was rarely motivated by humanitarianism, this book reveals the role of Britain's international preoccupations, anxieties and sense of identity; and how refugees' reception was shaped by voluntary efforts and the changing nature of the welfare state. Based on rich archival sources, this study offers a compelling new perspective on changing ideas of Britishness and the place of 'outsiders' in modern Britain.

Unsettled

Unsettled
Author: Jordanna Bailkin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2018
Genre: History
ISBN: 0198814216

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Over the course of the twentieth century, dozens of British refugee camps housed hundreds of thousands of displaced people from across the globe. Unsettled explores the hidden world of these camps and traces the complicated relationships that emerged between refugees and citizens.

The Unwanted

The Unwanted
Author: Michael Robert Marrus
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 446
Release: 1985
Genre: Science
ISBN:

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A history of refugees in 20th-century Europe, analyzing economic and socio-political causes for major population shifts. Describes Jewish emigration resulting from antisemitism and pogroms in Russia and Eastern Europe between 1880-1921, and antisemitic persecutions by the Nazi and fascist governments in Central and Eastern Europe in the 1930s and during World War II. also discusses the Final Solution, the rigid British immigration policy in Palestine, and anti-Jewish hostility among the Allied forces in Germany which often suspected Jewish displaced persons of black market activities.

Refugees in an Age of Genocide

Refugees in an Age of Genocide
Author: Katharine Knox
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 886
Release: 2012-10-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1136313265

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This is a study of the history of global refugee movements over the 20th century, ranging from east European Jews fleeing Tsarist oppression at the turn of the century to asylum seekers from the former Zaire and Yugoslavia. Recognizing that the problem of refugees is a universal one, the authors emphasize the human element which should be at the forefront of both the study of refugees and responses to them.

The Internment of Aliens in Twentieth Century Britain

The Internment of Aliens in Twentieth Century Britain
Author: David Cesarani
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2013-02-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1136293574

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These essays reveal the role of British intelligence in the roundups of European refugees and expose the subversion of democratic safeguards. They examine the oppression of internment in general and its specific effect on women, as well as the artistic and cultural achievements of internees.

Whitehall and the Jews, 1933-1948

Whitehall and the Jews, 1933-1948
Author: Louise London
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2003-02-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521534499

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Whitehall and the Jews is the most comprehensive study to date of the British response to the plight of European Jewry under Nazism. It contains the definitive account of immigration controls on the admission of refugee Jews, and reveals the doubts and dissent that lay behind British policy. British self-interest consistently limited humanitarian aid to Jews. Refuge was severely restricted during the Holocaust, and little attempt made to save lives, although individual intervention did prompt some admissions on a purely humanitarian basis. After the war, the British government delayed announcing whether refugees would obtain permanent residence, reflecting the government's aim of avoiding long-term responsibility for large numbers of homeless Jews. The balance of state self-interest against humanitarian concern in refugee policy is an abiding theme of Whitehall and the Jews, one of the most important contributions to the understanding of the Holocaust and Britain yet published.

On the Edges of Whiteness

On the Edges of Whiteness
Author: Jochen Lingelbach
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2020-05-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 178920447X

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From 1942 to 1950, nearly twenty thousand Poles found refuge from the horrors of war-torn Europe in camps within Britain’s African colonies, including Uganda, Tanganyika, Kenya and Northern and Southern Rhodesia. On the Edges of Whiteness tells their improbable story, tracing the manifold, complex relationships that developed among refugees, their British administrators, and their African neighbors. While intervening in key historical debates across academic disciplines, this book also gives an accessible and memorable account of survival and dramatic cultural dislocation against the backdrop of global conflict.

Refugees in an Age of Genocide

Refugees in an Age of Genocide
Author: Antony Robin Jeremy Kushner
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 562
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 0714647837

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Refugees in Twentieth-Century Britain

Refugees in Twentieth-Century Britain
Author: Becky Taylor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2021-05-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107187982

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A timely history of the entry, reception and resettlement of refugees to Britain across the twentieth century.

Consumerism in Twentieth-Century Britain

Consumerism in Twentieth-Century Britain
Author: Matthew Hilton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2003-11-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521538534

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This book is the first comprehensive history of consumerism as an organised social and political movement. Matthew Hilton offers a groundbreaking account of consumer movements, ideologies and organisations in twentieth-century Britain. He argues that in organisations such as the Co-operative movement and the Consumers' Association individual concern with what and how we spend our wages led to forms of political engagement too often overlooked in existing accounts of twentieth-century history. He explores how the consumer and consumerism came to be regarded by many as a third force in society with the potential to free politics from the perceived stranglehold of the self-interested actions of employers and trade unions. Finally he recovers the visions of countless consumer activists who saw in consumption a genuine force for liberation for women, the working class and new social movements as well as a set of ideas often deliberately excluded from more established political organisations.