Between National and International Mandates

Displaced Persons and Refugees in Postwar Italy

Bibliographic Data

ID10073461
AuthorsSilvia Salvatici (0000-0003-0140-9660, University of Teramo, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume49
Issue3
Pages514-536
Publication date2014-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Contemporary History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-0094 • E-ISSN: 1461-7250
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0022009414528262
OpenAlexW2035612435
LanguageEN
Citations received10

In the years of postwar reconstruction the experience of refugees in Italy was rapidly eclipsed, both in public discourse and in the growing number of studies on war and liberation. The need for resurrection and the desire to dissociate itself, both from Fascism and from the role it played in the Second World War, led Italian society to drive uncomfortable memories into the shadows. This forgetting of the recent past in turn engendered the misleading interpretation that the end of the war represented a watershed, and this misleading interpretation has extensively affected Italian historiography for several decades. At the end of the 1980s, some of the most relevant and controversial issues surrounding the war and postwar years started to be investigated (such as the Resistance as civil war, the deportations of Jews and the Allied bombings during the Second World War), while the history of refugees has been addressed only very recently and almost exclusively in relation to the revision of the eastern Italian–Yugoslav border. Research about Displaced Persons (DPs) still lags behind

Displaced person · Economic history · Historiography · Interpretation (philosophy · Political science · Refugee · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · World War II · European history and politics · Gender Studies · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration

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