Coming home? / edited by Sharif Gemie and Scott Soo with Norry Laporte.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gemie, Sharif.

Contributor:

Soo, Scott.

Laporte, Norman

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refugees--Europe--History--20th century.

Refugees.

Refugees--France--History--20th century.

Refugees--Africa, North--History--20th century.

History.

North Africa.

France.

Europe.

Physical Description:

volumes ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2013-

Summary:

The wars of the twentieth century uprooted people on a previously unimaginable scale to the extent that being a refugee became an increasingly widespread experience. With the arrival of refugees, governments of host countries had to mediate between divided national populations: some wished to welcome those arriving in search of refuge; others preferred a strategy of exclusion or even expulsion. At the same time, refugees had to manage conflicts of the self as they responded to the loss of nationhood, families, socio-political networks, material goods, and arguably also a sense of belonging or home. While return migration was usually perceived by governments and refugees alike as the best solution to the dilemmas of forced displacement, consensus about the timing and dynamics of how this would actually occur was very difficult to achieve. In practice, the return of refugees to their countries of origin rarely, if ever, produced a wholly satisfactory outcome. Conflicts clearly resulted in forced displacement, but it is equally true that forced displacement created conflicts. The complex inter-relationship of conflict, return migration and the sometimes chimerical, but still compelling, search for a sense of home is the central preoccupation of the contributors to the two volumes of the Coming Home? series. Scholars from history, literature, cultural studies and sociology explore the tensions between nation-states and migrants as they have anticipated, implemented or challenged the process of return migration during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book begins with Western Europe and progresses to Central and Eastern Europe from the period of the Spanish Civil War to the Cold War era, whilst the second volume - Coming Home? Vol. 2: Conflict and Postcolonial Return Migration in the Context of France and North Africa - shifts the focus to the colonial and post-colonial framework of the French-North African nexus. What emerges from the two volumes of essays is that, as ambiguous and sometimes ambivalent as home could appear, it was nonetheless central to migrants' preoccupations about returning. Book jacket.

Contents:

v. 1. Conflict and Return Migration in the Aftermath of Europe's Twentieth-Century Civil Wars

v. 2. Conflict and Postcolonial Return Migration in the Context of France and North Africa, 1962-2009

Notes:

V. 2. edited by Sharif Gemie and Scott Soo.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781443850414

1443850411

9781443850421

144385042X

OCLC:

861257253

Publisher Number:

99956305108