Internment Refugee Camps : Historical and Contemporary Perspectives.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bielefeld :
transcript Verlag,
2023.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Histoire Series
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I The polysemic function (character) of camps
- Internment practices during the First and Second World Wars
- Austrians in Trinidadian internment during the Second World War
- Rehabilitation through labour
- United Nations versus the Federal Agency
- Can camp life create a common world?
- Part II (Dis)empowering role of humanitarian intervention
- Interventions by non-governmental organisations in state-run internment camps in France
- Reconstructing Lives, Creating Citizens
- Civilian internees, common criminals or dangerous communists?
- Vicious circles of disempowerment
- Enhancing agency and empowerment in refugee camps as total institutions - real or illusory?
- Part III Strategies of coping and resistance
- Undesirable asylum-seekers from National Socialist Germany in France
- Singing and dancing for freedom of movement
- Room(s) for children?
- Part IV Pathways and transitions
- Cycles of incarceration
- Forced to flee and deemed suspect
- Filling the gap
- The life and afterlife of a twentieth-century French camp: Gurs
- Hard time in the Big Easy
- Annex
- Index of Names
- Short Biographies of contributors and editors.