Refugees in Europe 1919-1959

This volume offers a new history of Europe's mid-20th century as seen through the lens of its recurrent refugee crises. Borrowing from and adapting E. H. Carr's <i>The Twenty Years' Crisis</i> the editors of this volume conceive of the two post-war eras as a single 'forty years' crisis' which enables them not only to explore the continuities and disjunctures across the period but also to challenge established historiographical certainties and master narratives. <br/><br/> As the essays in this volume show the story of the 'forty years' crisis' can be told in very different ways: as one of upheaval disintegration and suffering or as one of newly emerging national and international solutions and possibilities; as a 'top-down' history of nations institutions and policies or as a 'bottom-up' history of refugees relief workers and refugee advocates; by assessing the historical developments themselves or their historiographical afterlives. This volume is unique in that it brings these different perspectives together and provides a coherent intellectual framework within which they can be made sense of. <br/><br/><i>Refugees in Twentieth-Century Europe</i> represents the first comprehensive treatment of refugees in Europe of this breadth and depth for over a generation. It will provide an indispensable research guide for students of migration nationalism and international diplomacy in 20th-century Europe and an up-to-date overview of current research for specialists. As such it will make a major contribution to European and international history.