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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 prac...
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  • 28 February 2023
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How did and does the fate of refugees unfold in internment camps? The contributors to this book 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 different countries – while considering the specific historical contexts. Moreover, they highlight the nexus of relationships and agencies which constitute the camps in question as transitory spaces. The contributions consist of analyses of local phenomena or case studies as well as comparative engagements from an international and/or historical perspective.
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Pages: 314
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: Histoire
Publication Date: 28 February 2023
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837659276
Format: Paperback
BISACs: HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
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»An expertly researched, in-depth, and compelling addition to the scholarly literature on the organised, state-led, and forced (dis)placement of refugees. It will not only be a valuable reference for academics and students but also offer important lessons for aid practitioners, interested in a comprehensive overview of the important effects, challenges, and contexts that characterize this rapidly expanding field of research and practice.«

Gabriele Anderl (Dr.) is a freelance researcher in Vienna. She worked for the Austrian Historical Commission and for the Austrian Commission for Provenance Research and is vice president of the Austrian Society for Exile Research (öge). She published numerous books and articles in the field of contemporary history, especially on the National Socialist era, on flight, rescue and exile.
Linda Erker (Dr.) is a historian and postdoc researcher at the Department of Contemporary History at Universität Wien. In her postdoc project she focuses on the migration of knowledge and the migration of scholars from Austria to Latin America between 1930 and 1970 (especially to Argentina and Chile). She is a board member of the öge.
Christoph Reinprecht (Dr.) is a professor for sociology at Universität Wien and president of the öge. His research interests are migration and city, social inequality and political sociology as well as the history of sociology, in particular the constitution of the social field of empirical sociology in Vienna.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Introduction 9
Internment practices during the First and Second World Wars 27
Austrians in Trinidadian internment during the Second World War 47
Rehabilitation through labour 59
United Nations versus the Federal Agency 73
Can camp life create a common world? 87
Interventions by non-governmental organisations in state-run internment camps in France 97
Reconstructing Lives, Creating Citizens 111
Civilian internees, common criminals or dangerous communists? 125
Vicious circles of disempowerment 137
Enhancing agency and empowerment in refugee camps as total institutions - real or illusory? 147
Undesirable asylum-seekers from National Socialist Germany in France 159
Singing and dancing for freedom of movement 177
Room(s) for children? 193
Cycles of incarceration 207
Forced to flee and deemed suspect 229
Filling the gap 251
The life and afterlife of a twentieth-century French camp: Gurs 269
Hard time in the Big Easy 287
Index of Names 303
Short Biographies of contributors and editors 309