Unsettled

Refugee Camps and the Making of Multicultural Britain

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20002314
AutoresJordanna Bailkin (autor de correspondencia)
Año2018
Páginas304
Fecha de publicación2018-06-21
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaUnsettled (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780198814214.001.0001
OpenAlexW4242044971
Open LibraryOL30597756M
ISBN9780198814214
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas15

Today, no one thinks of Britain as a land of camps. Instead, camps seem to happen “elsewhere,” from Greece to Palestine to the global South. Yet over the course of the twentieth century, dozens of British refugee camps housed hundreds of thousands of Belgians, Jews, Basques, Poles, Hungarians, Anglo-Egyptians, Ugandan Asians, and Vietnamese. “Refugee camps” in Britain were never only for refugees. Refugees shared space with Britons who had been displaced by war and poverty, as well as thousands of civil servants and a fractious mix of volunteers. Unsettled explores how these camps have shaped today’s multicultural Britain. They generated unique intimacies and frictions, illuminating the closeness of individuals that have traditionally been kept separate—“citizens” and “migrants,” but also refugee populations from diverse countries and conflicts. As the world’s refugee crisis once again brings to Europe the challenges of mass encampment, Unsettled offers warnings from a liberal democracy’s recent past. Through anecdotes from interviews with former camp residents and workers and archival research, Unsettled conveys the vivid, everyday history of refugee camps, which witnessed births and deaths, love affairs and violent conflicts, strikes and protests, comedy and tragedy. Their story—like that of today’s refugee crisis—is one of complicated intentions that played out in unpredictable ways. This book speaks to all who are interested in the plight of the encamped, and the global uses of encampment in our present world

Democracy · Genealogy · Multiculturalism · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Social science · Sociology · Tragedy (event) · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · ethnic relations · Flüchtlingslager · Great britain · Multikulturelle gesellschaft · Refugee camps · Refugees