Refugees in an Age of Genocide – Tony Kushner and Katharine Knox

List of Illustrations

Foreword by Sir Herman Ouseley, Commission for Racial Equality 

Preface

Acknowledgements

Maps

Afterword: Kosovo

Introduction: Refugees, Place and Memory

World history, local studies and the refugee  /  Localities and the refugees  /  International change and the ‘refugee crisis’  /  Defining refugees and common trends in twentieth-century movements

PART 1: THE CLOSING OF ASYLUM, 1900-1932

1. Refugees in the Age of Mass Immigration: From the late Nineteenth Century to the First World War

The origins of the Jewish refugee movement  /  The growth of anti-alienism in Britain and beyond  /  Refugees and local society

2. Refugees and the First World War

Anti-alienism in the First World War  /  The arrival of Belgian refugees  /  The local impact of Belgian refugees  /  The memory and significance of the Belgian refugees

3. Triumphant Anti-Alienism: The Absence of Asylum 1919-1932

The absence of Armenian refugees in post-1918 Britain  /  Post-war anti-alienism  /  The background to Atlantic Park Hostel  /  The establishment of Atlantic Park Hostel in the context of international politics  /  Atlantic Park and British Jewish politics  /  Life in Atlantic Park Hostel and the local impact

PART 2: THE FASCIST ERA, 1933-1945

4. Refugees from the Spanish Civil War

The rise of fascism and the Spanish Civil War  /  Support for the Republicans and assistance to the refugees  /  The arrival of the children and life in the camps  /  Responses to the refugees  /  The legacy of the Basque refugees

5. Refugees from Nazism, 1933-1939

Introduction: The meaning of asylum during the 1930s  /  Patterns of refugee movement, 1933-1937  /  The Anschluss and Austrian Jewry  /  ‘Kristallnacht’ and after  /  Local responses in Britain to the Jewish plight  /  The Refugee Children’s Movement  /  Domestic service and nursing  /  Smaller work schemes  /  Local initiatives  /  Conclusion: Place and identity

6. Refugees, the Second World War and the Holocaust

War, internment and after  /  War refugees and local memory  /  The Holocaust and local place  /  The end of mass rescue  /  The destruction of Polish Jewry  /  Local knowledge of the ‘Final Solution’  /  The final stages of the Holocaust  /  Survivors and the local world   /  Conclusion

PART 3. REFUGEES FROM THE COLD WAR

7. Polish Refugees : Assistance to Wartime Heroes

The Polish background and settlement in Britain  /  The transition to life in Britain  /  Life in the camps and employment in Britain  /  Local and national responses to the Poles  /  The aftermath of the Polish settlement

8. Refugees from Hungary: Anti-Communist Fervour Takes Hold

The Hungarian background  /  The Hungarian refugee movement  /  Responses to the Hungarian refugees  /  Life in Britain  /  Hampshire and the refugees  /  Concluson

PART 4. GOVERNMENT ENFORCED DISPERSAL DURING THE  1970s AND 1980s

9. Ugandan Asian Exiles: The Colonial Connection

The background to the Ugandan Asian crisis  /  Responses to the Ugandan Asian refugees  /  The dispersal policy  /  Life in Britain  /  Conclusion

10. Refugees from Chile: A Gesture of International Solidarity

The Chilean background  /  The settlement of Chilean refugees  /  Settlement in Britain  /  British reception of the Chileans  /  The Chileans’ experience of settlement

11. Refugees from Indo-China: A Media-Driven Resettlement Scheme?

The flight from persecution  /  Offers of asylum  /  Settlement in Britain  /  The lives of Vietnamese refugees in Britain  /  The reception camps and beyond  /  Popular responses to the Vietnamese  /  Refugee integration  /  Conclusion

PART 5. WORLD ASYLUM SEEKERS AT THE END OF THE CENTURY: CLOSING THE DOORS

12. The Kurds – A Moment of Humanity in an Era of Restriction?

The Kurdish background  /  Responses in Britain  /  Responding to the Kurdish refugees at a local level  /  Kurdish refugee life

13. Refugees from former Yugoslavia: The Last “Programme” Refugees?

The collapse of Yugoslavia  /  British responses to the crisis  /  The former Yugoslavs in Britain  /  Local responses  /  Conclusion

14. Refugees from the Former Zaire: The Context of Colour

The Zairean background  /  The Zairean refugee movement  /  The use of detention and the assault on asylum  /  Responses to Zaireans in Britain  /  Local repsonses and Zairean refugees in Hampshire  /  Conclusion: The future of asylum

CONCLUSION: Asylum, Refugees and ‘Home’

The nature of asylum  /  Refugees  /  ‘Home’

Notes

Bibliography

Index