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Author Soo, Scott

Title The routes to exile : France and the Spanish Civil War refugees, 1939-2009
Published Oxford : Manchester University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (306 pages)
Series Studies in Modern French History MUP
Studies in Modern French History MUP
Contents Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Preface; List of abbreviations; Map 1 French départements; Map 2 South-west France; Introduction: Coming to terms with the Spanish republican exile in France; Searching for the Spanish republican exile in France; Reflections on exile; On the 'routes' to an exile; Notes; Part I: The onset of exile; 1: Unravelling rights and identities: the exodus of 1939; Refugee legislation and the Third Republic; The Popular Front; Echoes of the conflict in Spain; Legislating for control, surveillance and exclusion; The exodus in context; Notes
2: Reception, internment and repatriation, 1939-40Conditions on arrival: the camps; Making sense of concentration-camp life; Events in the Aquitaine; Alternatives; Repatriation; Instructions and interpretations; Anti-repatriation campaigns; Making room for French refugees and collective protest; Refugees' motivations for returning; Notes; 3: Organisations, networks and identities, 1939-40; Spanish republican organisations in exile; Political-trade-union reorganisation in the concentration camps; The exilic press; Stories and values; Celebrating the Republic(s)?; Notes
Part II: Working in from the margins4: Ambiguities at work: refugees and the French war economy, 1939-40; Initiatives and alternatives; Agricultural co-operatives; The mass transformation of internees into workers; Contrasting images: economic utility; Contrasting images: national security; Refugees' reactions; Notes; 5: Work, surveillance, refusal and revolt in Vichy and German-occupied France, 1940-44; Asylum, Vichy and the Spanish refugees; Vichy's Foreign Labour Groups, 1940-41; Forced and voluntary labour in the Organisation Todt, 1940-42
Complicity at work: Otto and the Caserne Niel in BordeauxThe Occupied Zone: patterns of refusal, escape and subversion, 1941-42; The Unoccupied Zone: patterns of refusal, escape and subversion, 1941-42; Localities and the dynamics of forced recruitment, acceptance and rejection, 1943-44; Notes; Part III: Aspirations of return, commemoration and home; 6: Mobilisation, commemoration and return, 1944-55; From vanquished to victors; Border politics; Re-establishing Spanish republican legitimacy in France; The politics of remembering
The narratives and rituals of a proto-commemorative culture of exilic memoryShattered hopes; Membership, work, welfare and solidarity; Notes; 7: Moving memories, 1970-2009; Memory, refugees and the French nation-state; A commemorative culture of exile; Consolidating a commemorative culture; National and transnational contexts; The personal and the social; Making it home; Notes; Conclusion: trajectories and legacies; Notes; Appendix; Note; Bibliography; Archival sources; Internet sources; Life-history sources; Secondary sources; Index
Summary Analyses the experiences of Spanish Republican refugees in France
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-277) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Refugees -- Spain -- History -- 20th century
Refugees -- France -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY / Europe / France.
Refugees
Spanischer Bürgerkrieg 1936-1939
Flüchtling
SUBJECT Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Refugees
Subject France
Spain
Frankreich
Frankrijk.
Spanje.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781526102515
152610251X