Title Refugee crises, 1945-2000 : political and societal responses in international comparison / edited by Jan C. Jansen, Simone Lässig

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020 ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (x, 310 pages) : illustrations Series Publications of the German historical institute Publications of the German Historical Institute. Contents Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Responses to Refugee Crises in International Comparison -- Refugee -- Crisis -- Refugee Crises -- Cases and Contexts -- Responses to Refugee Crises: Toward a Comparison -- Actors and Agency in Refugee Crises -- The Power of Framing -- State-Building and Refugee Crises -- Mythmaking and Myth-Breaking -- Part I The Postwar and Decolonization Moment -- 2 The Dynamics of Expellee Integration in Post-1945 Europe -- Responses -- Comparisons 3 Integrating without a Host Society: The Repopulation of Poland's Western Territories after 1945 -- ''Repatriation'' -- The Migrant Society -- Poland's Wild West -- Forging a Functioning Society -- Conclusion -- 4 Pakistan: Refugee State -- Migration and Partition -- The State's Response to the Refugee Crisis -- Political Legacies of the Refugee Crisis -- Corruption -- Exercise of Executive Authority and Delay of Elections -- The Strengthening of the Army and Bureaucracy -- The Refugee Situation and Landlord Dominance in Punjab -- Refugee Migration and Ethnic Nationalism in Pakistan -- Sindh Partition, State Construction, and Nation-Building in Pakistan -- Conclusion -- 5 Transgenerational Displacement and Integration among Palestinians and Palestinian Refugees from Syria in Jordan -- Movement and Integration -- Security, Solidarity, and Stability -- Generation Now -- Conclusion -- 6 A Matter of Definition: Institutional Inclusion and Europe's Postcolonial Migrants -- Diverse Populations -- Leaving the (Former) Colonies -- Settler Colonies -- Dutch Indies -- French Algeria -- Portuguese Angola and Mozambique -- Reception -- British India -- Settler Colonial Cases -- The Netherlands The French Reflux -- Portuguese Returnees -- A ''Postcolonial Bonus'' -- A Matter of Definition and Processes of Institutional Inclusion -- Conclusion -- Part II Refugee Movements during the Cold War and beyond -- 7 The 1956-1957 Hungarian Refugee Crisis and the Role of the Canadian Press in Opening the Doors to Asylum Seekers -- A Refugee Crisis of Global Proportions -- From Closed Doors to a Country of Immigrants -- The Sea Change of 1956-1957 and the Role of the Globe and Mail -- Humanizing Refugees, Promoting Nation-Building through Diversity -- The Refugee Crisis in English Qubec Hungarian Refugees and Qubec's Le Devoir and La Presse -- Hungarian Refugees and Canada's Jewish Community -- Dissenting Voices in the Hungarian Canadian Diaspora -- ''Ennobling'' Canada through Refugee Settlement -- 8 Responding to and Resettling the Vietnamese Boat People: Perspectives from the United States and West Germany -- Scattered Seeds: The Exodus and International Reactions -- Shifting Frames: The United States and West German Responses -- Resettlement: Boat People in the United States and West Germany -- Retrospect: Changes and Impacts -- Coda Summary "Refugee Crises 1945-2000 brings together ten case studies that examine responses to refugee movements from actors at several levels, ranging from local communities in receiving societies to INGOs and supranational organizations. The perspective is global, encompassing the global North and South alike. These cases cover a broad spectrum of types of migration and of international and domestic contexts. The driving forces and numbers of people involved varied considerably from case to case, and the backgrounds (national, religious, social) of the migrants also differed enormously. The common factor is that in each case the receiving country was confronted with the crucial question of how to deal with the arrival of a large number of people seeking refuge. They could not simply be sent away, but they were also widely seen in the receiving countries as an unpredictable challenge to stability and social cohesion"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 21, 2020) Subject Refugees -- Government policy -- History -- 20th century Refugees -- International cooperation -- History -- 20th century Emigration and immigration -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century Emigration and immigration -- Political aspects Refugees -- Government policy Refugees -- International cooperation Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Jansen, Jan C., editor. Lässig, Simone, 1964- editor. LC no. 2020014780 ISBN 9781108891745 1108891748 9781108880466 1108880460

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