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Internment Refugee Camps : Historical and Contemporary Perspectives /

How did and does the fate of refugees unfold in internment camps? The contributors facilitate an extensive engagement with the organized, state led, and forced placement of refugees in the past and present. They show the parallels and differences between the practices and types of internment in diff...

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Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Other Authors: Agier, Michel, 1953- (Contributor), Anderl, Gabriele (Contributor, Editor), Behrensen, Birgit, 1965- (Contributor), Blumenthal, Rachel, 1963- (Contributor), Bombach, Clara (Contributor), Brandmaier, Maximiliane (Contributor), Christidis, Ioannis (Contributor), Cwik, Christian (Contributor), Erker, Linda (Contributor, Editor), Jahr, Christoph, 1963- (Contributor), Kranebitter, Andreas (Contributor), Kutner, Anat (Contributor), Maier, Lilly (Contributor), Mayer, Michael (Contributor), Mikel-Arieli, Roni (Contributor), Miller, Marilyn G. (Contributor), Pirker, Peter, 1970- (Contributor), Reinprecht, Christoph, 1957- (Contributor, Editor), Rosenberg, Pnina (Contributor), Stibbe, Matthew (Contributor), Strutz, Andrea (Contributor), Turcotte, Jean-Michel (Contributor), Wünschmann, Kim (Contributor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2023.
Series:Histoire (Transcript (Firm)) ; Bd. 192.
Subjects:
Internment camps > History.
Refugees > Effect of imprisonment on.
Refugees > Social conditions.
Internment camp inmates > Social conditions.
Asylum Seekers.
Cultural History.
Exile.
Global History.
History.
Memory Culture.
Migration.
Persecution.
Refugees.
Violence.
Camps d'internement > Histoire.
Réfugiés > Effets de l'emprisonnement sur.
Réfugiés > Conditions sociales.
Détenus de camp d'internement > Conditions sociales.
HISTORY / World.
Internment camps
Refugees > Social conditions
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I The polysemic function (character) of camps
  • Internment practices during the First and Second World Wars
  • Austrians in Trinidadian internment during the Second World War
  • Rehabilitation through labour
  • United Nations versus the Federal Agency
  • Can camp life create a common world?
  • Part II (Dis)empowering role of humanitarian intervention
  • Interventions by non-governmental organisations in state-run internment camps in France
  • Reconstructing Lives, Creating Citizens
  • Civilian internees, common criminals or dangerous communists?
  • Vicious circles of disempowerment
  • Enhancing agency and empowerment in refugee camps as total institutions
  • real or illusory?
  • Part III Strategies of coping and resistance
  • Undesirable asylum-seekers from National Socialist Germany in France
  • Singing and dancing for freedom of movement
  • Room(s) for children?
  • Part IV Pathways and transitions
  • Cycles of incarceration
  • Forced to flee and deemed suspect
  • Filling the gap
  • The life and afterlife of a twentieth-century French camp: Gurs
  • Hard time in the Big Easy
  • Annex
  • Index of Names
  • Short Biographies of contributors and editors