Kindness to Strangers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4493584 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Liza Schuster (0000-0003-2896-0575, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 287-292 |
| Publication date | 2009-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History Workshop Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-4569 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hwj/dbn075 |
| OpenAlex | W2045392671 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Historians, Tony Kushner points out at the beginning of Remembering Refugees, have given too little attention to refugees (with a few honourable exceptions). His important book moves into this gap. It is an antidote to prevailing myths, highlighting as it does the ambiguous relationship between Britons and refugees. It is also a significant contribution to a small but growing body of work revealing the centrality of refugees to statecraft – including Nevzat Soguk's 1999 States and Strangers1 – and to nation-building, as examined by Gérard Noiriel in the book reviewed here. All three authors uncover the role played by refugees in shaping the moral cultures of nation-states, and this is where Kushner's Remembering Refugees is most revealing. Using an enormous range of sources, from local histories provided at Heritage Centres, to biographies, to Mass Observation studies, as well as poetry, films, newspaper articles and public speeches, Kushner reveals...
Art · Criminology · Kindness · Literature · Media studies · Mythology · Newspaper · Poetry · Political science · Refugee · Sociology · Syrian refugees · Gender Studies · Irish and British Studies · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |