Internment Refugee Camps: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2022

Internment Refugee Camps

Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Edited by: Gabriele Anderl , Linda Erker and Christoph Reinprecht
Funded by: Institut für Historische Sozialforschung , Paul Grüninger Stiftung, St. Gallen , Zukunftsfonds der Republik Österreich , Arbeiterkammer Wien , Österreichische Gesellschaft für Exilforschung (öge) and Österreichische Forschungsgemeinschaft

Volume 192 in the series Histoire

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839459270

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About this book

How did and does the fate of refugees unfold in internment camps? The contributors to this book facilitate an extensive engagement with the organized, state led, and forced placement of refugees in the past and present. They show the parallels and differences between the practices and types of internment in different countries - while considering the specific historical contexts. Moreover, they highlight the nexus of relationships and agencies which constitute the camps in question as transitory spaces. The contributions consist of analyses of local phenomena or case studies as well as comparative engagements from an international and/or historical perspective.

Author / Editor information

Gabriele Anderl (Dr.) is a freelance researcher in Vienna. She worked for the Austrian Historical Commission and for the Austrian Commission for Provenance Research and is vice president of the Austrian Society for Exile Research (öge). She published numerous books and articles in the field of contemporary history, especially on the National Socialist era, on flight, rescue and exile.
Linda Erker (Dr.) is a historian and postdoc researcher at the Department of Contemporary History at Universität Wien. In her postdoc project she focuses on the migration of knowledge and the migration of scholars from Austria to Latin America between 1930 and 1970 (especially to Argentina and Chile). She is a board member of the öge.
Christoph Reinprecht (Dr.) is a professor for sociology at Universität Wien and president of the öge. His research interests are migration and city, social inequality and political sociology as well as the history of sociology, in particular the constitution of the social field of empirical sociology in Vienna.

Reviews

»An expertly researched, in-depth, and compelling addition to the scholarly literature on the organised, state-led, and forced (dis)placement of refugees. It will not only be a valuable reference for academics and students but also offer important lessons for aid practitioners, interested in a comprehensive overview of the important effects, challenges, and contexts that characterize this rapidly expanding field of research and practice.«
Gabriel/le du Plessis, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 17.10.2023

»A thought-provoking volume that helps us understand the complexities of an institution that has returned, inforce, to our contemporary world.«
Aidan Forth, Francia recensio, 3 (2023)

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Introduction Gabriele Anderl, Linda Erker and Christoph Reinprecht Open Access Download PDF	9
Part I The polysemic function (character) of camps
Internment practices during the First and Second World Wars A comparison Matthew Stibbe and Kim Wünschmann Open Access Download PDF	27
Austrians in Trinidadian internment during the Second World War The case of the Stecher family Christian Cwik Open Access Download PDF	47
Rehabilitation through labour Welfare or control in a postwar Austrian internment camp Rachel Blumenthal Open Access Download PDF	59
United Nations versus the Federal Agency The recognition of asylum-seekers in West German camps after 1949 Michael Mayer Open Access Download PDF	73
Can camp life create a common world? Michel Agier Open Access Download PDF	87
Part II (Dis)empowering role of humanitarian intervention
Interventions by non-governmental organisations in state-run internment camps in France The rescue of Jewish children from Rivesaltes as told through the example of Vivette Hermann Lilly Maier Open Access Download PDF	97
Reconstructing Lives, Creating Citizens The role of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in the rehabilitation of detainees on Cyprus, 1946–49 Anat Kutner Open Access Download PDF	111
Civilian internees, common criminals or dangerous communists? The International Committee of the Red Cross, the United Nations Command and internment in South Korea, 1950–53 Jean-Michel Turcotte Open Access Download PDF	125
Vicious circles of disempowerment The social dynamics of contemporary German refugee shelters Birgit Behrensen Open Access Download PDF	137
Enhancing agency and empowerment in refugee camps as total institutions – real or illusory? Maximiliane Brandmaier Open Access Download PDF	147
Part III Strategies of coping and resistance
Undesirable asylum-seekers from National Socialist Germany in France Horst Rosenthals’ comics in Gurs Camp Pnina Rosenberg Open Access Download PDF	159
Singing and dancing for freedom of movement Enacting citizenship and resisting forced confinement in “hotspot” refugee camps in Thessaloniki, Greece 2016 Ioannis Christidis Open Access Download PDF	177
Room(s) for children? Children’s everyday practices in a “community shelter” in Switzerland today Clara Bombach Open Access Download PDF	193
Part IV Pathways and transitions
Cycles of incarceration From the “Third Reich” through British Mandatory Palestine to Mauritius Roni Mikel-Arieli Open Access Download PDF	207
Forced to flee and deemed suspect Tracing life stories of interned refugees in Canada during and after the Second World War Andrea Strutz Open Access Download PDF	229
Filling the gap Displaced Persons and émigré scholars in the post-slavery society of the US South Andreas Kranebitter and Peter Pirker Open Access Download PDF	251
The life and afterlife of a twentieth-century French camp: Gurs Christoph Jahr Open Access Download PDF	269
Hard time in the Big Easy The unique role of New Orleans in Second World War enemy alien internment Marilyn G. Miller Open Access Download PDF	287
Annex
Index of Names Open Access Download PDF	303
Short Biographies of contributors and editors Open Access Download PDF	309

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 314
Keywords: Refugees; Exile; Asylum Seekers; Persecution; Memory Culture; Violence; Cultural History; Global History; Migration; History

eBook

Published: November 27, 2022
ISBN: 9783839459270