Refugees and the End of Empire: Imperial Collapse and Forced Migration in the Twentieth Century

by P. Panayi (Editor), P. Virdee (Editor)

Overview

An examination of the relationship between imperial collapse, the emergence of successor nationalism, the exclusion of ethnic groups and the refugee experience. Written by both established authorities and younger scholars, this book offers a unique international comparative approach to the study of refugees at the end of empire

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349309740
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2011
Edition description:	1st ed. 2011
Pages:	305
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x (d)

About the Author

ILYAS CHATTHA Post-Doctoral Graduate, the University of Southampton, UK DAWN CHATTY University Reader in Anthropology and Forced Migration, the University of Oxford, UK MATTHEW FRANK Lecturer in International History, the University of Leeds, UK MARK LEVENE Reader in Comparative History, the University of Southampton, UK EMMA ROBERTSON Senior Lecturer in History, Sheffield Hallam University, UK VICTORIA ROWE Post-Doctoral graduate, University of Toronto, Canada UDITI SEN Max Weber Fellow, the European University Institute, Florence, Italy IAN TALBOT Head of History and Director of the Centre for Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, the University of Southampton, UK JULIE THORPE Research Lecturer in Humanities, the University of Western Sydney, Australia

Table of Contents

Preface: Key Themes, Concepts and Rationale; P.Panayi & P.Virdee PART I: INTRODUCTION Imperial Collapse and the Creation of Refugees in Twentieth Century Europe; P.Panayi The End of European Colonial Empires and Forced Migration: Some Comparative Case Studies; I.Talbot The Tragedy of the Rimlands, Nation-state Formation and the Destruction of Imperial Peoples, 1912-1948; M.Levene PART II: IMPERIAL COLLAPSE IN EUROPE AND THE MIDDLE EAST Fantasies of Ethnic Unmixing: 'Population Transfer' and the End of Empire in Europe; M.Frank Displacing Empire: Refugee Welfare, National Activism and State Legitimacy in Austria-Hungary in World War One; J.Thorpe Armenian Women Refugees at the End of Empire: Strategies of Survival; V.Rowe Social Cohesion in an Impermanent Landscape: Dispossession and Forced Migration in the Arab Middle East; D.Chatty PART III: THE CONSEQUENCES AND LEGACY OF BRITISH IMPERIAL COLLAPSE Dissident Memories: Exploring Bengali Refugee Narratives in the Andaman Islands; U.Sen Escape from Violence: The 1947 Partition of India and Migration: The Experience of Kashmiri Muslim Refugees; I.Chatta 'No Home but in Memory': The Legacies of Colonial Rule in the Punjab; P.Virdee 'Green for Come': Moving to York as a Ugandan Asian Refugee; E.Robertson PART IV: CONCLUSION Conclusion and Legacies; P.Panayi & P.Virdee Bibliography