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Free World?: The Campaign to Save the World's Refugees, 19561963 [Kietas viršelis]

(University of Manchester)
  • Formatas: Hardback, 278 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 236x159x20 mm, weight: 580 g, 22 Halftones, black and white
  • Išleidimo metai: 13-Jan-2011
  • Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1107002400
  • ISBN-13: 9781107002401
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  • Formatas: Hardback, 278 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 236x159x20 mm, weight: 580 g, 22 Halftones, black and white
  • Išleidimo metai: 13-Jan-2011
  • Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1107002400
  • ISBN-13: 9781107002401
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Raktažodžiai:
"Free World? is a major contribution to the transnational history of humanitarianism in the postwar world. Peter Gatrell shows how and why the UN, NGOs, governments and individuals embarked on a unique campaign, World Refugee Year (1959-1960), in response to global refugee crises, particularly in Europe, the Middle East and the Far East. Adopted by nearly one hundred countries, the campaign galvanised public opinion and raised money by enlisting celebrities, using the mass media, and recreating 'refugee camps' in the affluent West. Free World? assesses the causes and consequences of the refugee crises, locates the campaign in the broader geopolitical context of the Cold War and decolonisation and shows how it helped to inspire subsequent campaigns such as Amnesty International and Freedom from Hunger. Ultimately the book asks how those who are in a more privileged position might better reflect on their responsibilities towards refugees in the modern world"--

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'Peter Gatrell has written a fine book which recounts and details a little remembered period of the history of humanitarian assistance to refugees some fifty years ago. Free World? is an important contribution to our understanding of refugee policy in the early period of the Cold War. Unlike most other studies, this book focuses on the roles of individuals and civil society rather than international organizations and states in responding to refugee problems. The book will be of particular interest to students of transnational history and transnational advocacy networks as well as to those who research and write about protracted refugee situations.' Journal of Refugee Studies 'Free World? is a fine contribution to the literature about the international response to refugees during the period from 1945 to 1963.' Journal of Interdisciplinary History 'Peter Gatrell's Free World? is an invaluable addition to the historiography of refugee affairs, and his engaging analysis raises new questions and modes of inquiry that other scholars will be well served to consider. Quite simply, Free World? is now the standard account of World Refugee Year.' Journal of World History ' impressive study ' International History Review 'This is a commendable book, rich with details showing Gatrell's fine research skills.' American Historical Review

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A unique study of a postwar campaign by the UN, NGOs, governments and individuals to address the global refugee crisis.
List of illustrations
ix
Acknowledgements x
List of abbreviations
xiii
Introduction: Refugee histories, refugee concern, transnational histories 1(9)
1 Free world?
10(37)
Introduction: a `plan to save the refugees'
10(4)
Migration at mid-century: the legacy of the Second World War
14(6)
Migration at mid-century: the bigger picture
20(5)
Displacement on a global scale
25(4)
Varieties of captivity: Cold War, decolonisation and race
29(8)
Freedom, affluence and anxiety
37(5)
Conclusion
42(5)
2 Sites of confrontation, crucibles of displacement: towards World Refugee Year
47(30)
Introduction: refugees and politics
47(2)
Cold War confrontation in Europe: Hungary and the `hard core'
49(9)
Hong Kong: a British colony meets Chinese refugees
58(5)
Palestine: `humanitarian relief in lieu of politics
63(3)
North Africa: French rule and Algerian refugees
66(3)
Asia again: Russians in China, and Tibetan refugees
69(5)
Conclusion
74(3)
3 World Refugee Year: the politics of a global campaign
77(64)
Introduction: locating `humanitarian' concern
77(2)
Onslaught: the British origins of World Refugee Year
79(5)
United Nations and UNHCR
84(6)
Stakeholders: rich and poor countries
90(32)
God and Caesar: churches and NGOs
122(15)
Conclusion
137(4)
4 World Refugee Year: presences and absences
141(70)
Introduction: elements of the campaign for Wry
141(4)
Citizenship, celebrity and consumption
145(23)
Cultural representations of displacement
168(33)
Assessing Wry
201(6)
Conclusion
207(4)
5 Bricks or dynamite? Achievements, disappointments, opportunities
211(31)
Introduction: the roaring sixties
211(3)
Beyond Wry
214(5)
Cuba -- an old-style Cold War refugee crisis
219(3)
Decolonisation, `new refugees' and race
222(4)
`After the refugees -- the hungry millions': freedom from hunger and visions of development
226(9)
Captivity in other guises
235(3)
Conclusion
238(4)
Conclusion
242(8)
Global politics, humanitarianism and refugees in the modern era
242(8)
Appendix 250(1)
List of archives 251(4)
Index 255
Peter Gatrell is Professor of Economic History at the University of Manchester. His previous publications include Homelands: War, Population and Statehood in Eastern Europe and Russia, 19181924 (co-edited, 2004), and Warlands: Population Resettlement and State Reconstruction in the Soviet-East European Borderlands, 19451950 (co-edited, 2008).