Statelessness After Arendt: European Refugees in China and the Pacific During the Second World War

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Kolleen Guy Jay Winter

Statelessness After Arendt

European Refugees in China and the Pacific During the Second World War

Kolleen Guy, Jay Winter

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English

Manchester University Press
01 June 2025

Asian history; Social & cultural history; Second World War; Refugees & political asylum; Migration, immigration & emigration

Series: Cultural History of Modern War

This book is a study of statelessness in the period of the Second World War. It breaks new ground by focusing not on Europe, but on the Asian and Pacific theatres of the conflict. This perspective enables us to go beyond Hannah Arendt's classic account of statelessness in her Origins of Totalitarianism.

To her, statelessness was the product of a failed European nation-state system. We find a very different story when we examine the history of stateless people, many of them Jews, fleeing to Asia from Europe. In Asia, we see that being stateless was not a uniform experience, but a variety of possibilities reflecting the political structure of the states and cities in which refugees found shelter. We find too that stateless people managed to enter the political realm long before they reached the threshold of citizenship.

Edited by: Kolleen Guy, Jay Winter
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 596g
ISBN: 9781526183026
ISBN 10: 1526183021
Series: Cultural History of Modern War
Pages: 388
Publication Date: 01 June 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kolleen Guy is Associate Professor of Humanities and Division Chair of Arts and Humanities at Duke Kunshan University. Jay Winter is Charles J. Stille Professor of History emeritus at Yale University and Distinguished Senior Teaching Scholar at Duke Kunshan University.