Refugee Crises, 1945-2000: Political and Societal Responses in International Comparison

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by  Jan C. Jansen, Simone Lässig

Refugee Crises, 1945–2000
Thistimelystudyexaminesresponsestomassrefugeemovementsbya
rangeofactors,fromlocalcommunitiestosupranationalorganizations.
Bringing together ten case studies from around the world, encompass-
ing the global North and South alike, Refugee Crises 1945–2000
explores a broad spectrum of types of migration and of international
and domestic contexts. Although the driving forces and numbers of
people involved, and the backgrounds (national, religious, social) of
themigrants,varyconsiderably,thisbookhighlightsacommonfactor:
eachreceivingcountrywasconfrontedwiththecrucialquestionofhow
todealwiththearrivalofalargenumberofpeopleseekingrefuge.They
could not simply be sent away, but they were also widely seen in the
receivingcountriesasanunpredictablechallengetostabilityandsocial
cohesion. Taking a long-term perspective, this book is an eloquent
contribution to the intense public debate about the impact of refugee
migration on state stability, societal cohesion and as an impetus for
socialchange.
Jan C. Jansen is a professor of global history at the University of
Duisburg-Essen and principal investigator of the research project
“Atlantic Exiles: Refugees and Revolution in the Atlantic World,
1770s-1820s” funded by the European Research Council. A historian
of Europe’s entanglements with the world since the late eighteenth
century and of decolonization, he is coeditor of Vertriebene and
Pieds-Noirs in Postwar Germany and France (2016), a systematic
comparison of two of the largest involuntary population movements
topost-1945Europe.
Simone Lässigisdirector oftheGermanHistoricalInstitute, Washing-
ton, DC, and professor of modern history at the University of Braun-
schweig.Herfirstbook,astudyofthecampaignforelectoralreformin
Saxony, won the 1996 Horst Springer Prize. In 2004, the German
HistoricalAssociationawardedheritsbiennialprizeforthebestsecond
book (Habilitationsschrift, 2003) for her study of the embourgeoise-
ment of German Jewry. Her research currently focuses on modern
Jewishhistory,thehistoryofknowledge,migrationhistory,anddigital
history.
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Political and Societal Responses in International
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Contents
List of Contributors page vii
Acknowledgments ix
1 Responsesto Refugee Crises in International Comparison 1
JanC.JansenandSimoneLässig
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2 The Dynamics of Expellee Integration inPost-1945 Europe 29
PerttiAhonen
3 Integrating without aHost Society:The Repopulation of
Poland’s Western Territories after 1945 55
GregorThum
4 Pakistan:Refugee State 83
IanTalbot
5 TransgenerationalDisplacement and Integration among
Palestinians and Palestinian Refugees from Syria in Jordan 104
LuisaGandolfo
6 AMatter ofDefinition:Institutional Inclusion and Europe’s
PostcolonialMigrants 124
AndreaL.Smith
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  
7 The1956–1957HungarianRefugeeCrisisandtheRoleofthe
Canadian Press in Opening the Doors to Asylum Seekers 157
ChristopherAdam
8 Responding to and Resettlingthe Vietnamese Boat People:
Perspectives from the United States andWest Germany 181
QuanTueTran
9 USStateandCivilSocietyResponsestoSalvadoranRefugees,
1980–1991 209
PatrickScallen
10 The Plight of theFirst Post–Cold War Refugees: The
Reception and Settlement of Bosnians inAustria and the
United States 235
BarbaraFranz
11 Rwandan Refugees in Tanzania, 1994–1996 260
JillRosenthal
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12 Recalibrating Refugees: Global and HistoricalPerspectives 285
LeoLucassen
Index 303
Contributors
Christopher Adam, Department of History, Carleton University
Pertti Ahonen, Department of History and Ethnography, University of
Jyvaskyla
Barbara Franz, Department of Political Science, Rider University
LuisaGandolfo, Department of Sociology, Universityof Aberdeen
JanC. Jansen, Department of History, University ofDuisburg-Essen
Simone Lässig, German HistoricalInstitute, Washington,DC
LeoLucassen,InstituteforHistory,UniversityofLeidenandInternational
InstituteofSocialHistory,Amsterdam
JillRosenthal,DepartmentofHistory,HunterCollege,CityUniversityof
New York
Patrick Scallen,Department ofHistory, Georgetown University
Andrea L. Smith, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Lafayette
College
IanTalbot, Department ofHistory, University of Southampton
Gregor Thum,Department ofHistory, University of Pittsburgh
QuanTue Tran,Program inEthnicity, Race, and Migration,
Yale University
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