A Transnational History of Forced Migrants in Europe: Unwilling Nomads in the Age of the Two World Wars...

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Dr Bastiaan Willems (Lancaster University, UK) Dr Michal Adam Palacz (Oxford Brookes University, UK)

A Transnational History of Forced Migrants in Europe

Unwilling Nomads in the Age of the Two World Wars

Dr Bastiaan Willems (Lancaster University, UK), Dr Michal Adam Palacz (Oxford Brookes University, UK)

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Bloomsbury Academic
21 March 2024

European history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Social & cultural history; Migration, immigration & emigration

This book is a vital exploration of the harrowing stories of mass displacement that took place in the first half of the 20th century from the perspective of forced migrants themselves. The volume brings together 15 interrelated case studies which show how the deportation, evacuation and flight of millions of people as a result of the First World War intensified rather than alleviated ethnic conflicts which culminated in population transfers on an even larger scale during and immediately after the Second World War. While each chapter focuses on a different group of refugees and displaced persons, the text as a whole looks at the experience of forced migration as a complex set of evolving relationships with the receiving society, the homeland, the broader diaspora and other migrant communities living within the same host country. This innovative, four-dimensional model provides an overarching conceptual framework that binds the chapters together within the longer arc of European history.

By going beyond the conventional narratives of national victimhood and (un)successful assimilation of refugees, A Transnational History of Forced Migrants in Europe

reveals that identities of forced migrants in the first half of the 20th century were individualised, hybrid and constantly reconstructed in response to socioeconomic forces and political pressures. The case studies collected in this volume further suggest that age, gender, social class, educational level and the personal experiences of ‘unwilling nomads’ are more important to the understanding of forced migration history than ethnoreligious identities of victims and perpetrators.

Edited by: Dr Bastiaan Willems (Lancaster University UK), Dr Michal Adam Palacz (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781350281080
ISBN 10: 1350281085
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 21 March 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Bastiaan Willems is Lecturer in the History of War in 20th-Century Europe at Lancaster University, UK. He is the author of Violence in Defeat: The Wehrmacht on German Soil, 1944-1945 (2021) and co-editor of Reflections on Perpetration and Complicity under Nazism and Beyond: Compromised Identities? (forthcoming, Bloomsbury). Michal Adam Palacz is Postdoctoral Researcher in History at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He specializes in the transnational history of medicine and migration.

Reviews for A Transnational History of Forced Migrants in Europe: Unwilling Nomads in the Age of the Two World Wars

A valuable contribution to our understanding of the mass refugee movements which blighted Europe in the era of the two world wars. Using the concept of diaspora and drawing from case studies covering the entire continent, this volume offers innovative insights into a wide range of expulsions during this period. --Panikos Panayi, Professor of European History, De Montfort University, UK