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Outcast Europe 1936-1948

Refugee Experiences in an Era of Total War
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This is an original perspective on the experience of refugees and relief workers. The period of the 'long' Second World War (1936-1948) was marked by mass movements of diverse populations: 60 million people either fled or were forced from their homes. This book considers the Spanish Republicans fleeing Franco's Spain in 1939, the French civilians trying to escape the Nazi invasion in 1940, and the millions of people displaced or expelled by the forces of Hitler's Third Reich. Throughout this period state and voluntary organisations were created to take care of the homeless and the displaced. National organisations dominated until the end of the war; afterwards, international organisations - the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency and the International Refugee Organisation - were formed to deal with what was clearly an international problem. Using case studies of displaced people and of relief workers, this book is unique in placing such crises at the centre rather than the margins of wartime experience, making the work nothing less than an alternative history of the Second World War.

Author Biography

Laure Humbert is a research assistant at the University of Glamorgan, UK. Dr Fiona Reid is Lecturer at the University of Glamorgan. Her research areas include the social history of WWI and the remembrance and commemoration of war. Sharif Gemie is Reader in History at the University of Glamorgan, UK. He has published widely on modern European history and recent published books include French Revolutions 1815 - 1914: An Introduction (1999) and French Muslims: New Voices in Contemporary France (2010).
Release date Australia
November 17th, 2011
Audiences
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Undergraduate
Country of Publication
United States
Illustrations
6 b/w illustrations
Imprint
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Pages
264
Publisher
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Dimensions
156x234x25
ISBN-13
9781441115454
Product ID
10411473

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