Immigrants and Foreigners in Central and Eastern Europe During the Twentieth Century

ISBN-13: 9781032174266 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 176 str.

Wlodzimierz Borodziej; Joachim Von Puttkamer

Opis

Immigrants and Foreigners in Central and Eastern Europe during the Twentieth Century challenges widespread conceptions of Central and Eastern European countries as merely countries of origin. It sheds light on their experience of immigration and the establishment of refugee regimes at different stages in the history of the region.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1: Refugees and Migrants: Perceptions and Categorizations of Moving People 1789–1938; Chapter 2: Return Migration and Social Disruption in the Polish Second Republic: A Reassessment of Resettlement Regimes; Chapter 3 Jewish Railway Car Dwellers in 1920s Hungary: Citizenship and Uprootedness; Chapter 4: ‘In the long run, people will go down here’. Refugees from Nazi Germany in Czechoslovakia in the 1930s; Chapter 5: Communities of Resettlement: Integrating Migrants from the Czechoslovak–Hungarian Population Exchange in Post-war Hungary; Chapter 6: Passports and Profits: Foreigners on the Trade Routes of the Polish People’s Republic (PPR); Chapter 7: Socialist Mobility, Postcolonialism and Global Solidarity: The Movement of People from the Global South to Socialist Hungary; Chapter 8: Migration, Gender and Family: A Bottom-Up Perspective on Migration, Return Migration and Nation-building in 1950s Poland and Israel; Chapter 9: East-Central Europe and the Making of the Modern Refugee; Index

O autorze

Włodzimierz Borodziej is Professor of History at Warsaw University, Poland, and Joachim von Puttkamer is Professor of Eastern European History at Jena University, Germany, and co-director of the Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena, Germany.