Determined to get on’
Some Displaced Persons on the Way to a Future
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12649705 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fitzpatrick (0000-0002-9934-7535, The University of Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 102-123 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History Australia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1449-0854 • E-ISSN: 1833-4881 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14490854.2015.11668572 |
| OpenAlex | W1431586383 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Millions of people were displaced as a result of the Second World War. Most were repatriated, but a ‘hard core’ of almost a million refused repatriation, awaiting resettlement outside Europe. These included many from the Baltic states, forcibly incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940. The essay presents a case study of three Latvians who found themselves in displaced persons’ (DP) camps in Germany after the war and ultimately settled in the United States and Australia. It suggests that, far from being simply pawns of fate, as is often thought, DPs consistently exercised individual and collective agency.This article has been peer reviewed
Agency (philosophy · Displaced person · Political economy · Political science · Refugee · Repatriation · Social science · Sociology · Soviet union · World War II · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |