"This volume explores the forced migration of people, defined briefly as when individuals or groups are compelled to leave their home countries due to various (though predominantly political) factors, to the UK and the British Empire from 1815 to 1949. With a uniquely international and inclusive scope, this volume is a welcome contribution to our understanding of forced migrations over this 135-year period. It aims to kickstart future work on this subject and provide the basis for a more truly global understanding of refugees, forced migrations, and border controls in modern history. Contributors are: Yianni Cartledge, Vesna Curlic, Milosz K. Cybowski, Rosaria Franco, Jade Hastings, Jemima Jarman, Jeffrey Jones, Thomas C. Jones, Chana Revell Kotzin, Micha± Adam Palacz, Leslie Rogne Schumacher, Evan Smith, Andrekos Varnava, and Andrew Williams"--
This volume explores forced migrations, i.e. when individuals or groups are compelled to leave their home countries due to various factors, predominantly political. It focuses on the years 18151949 and on people who then settled in the UK or in other parts of the British Empire.
Recenzijas
"A high-quality volume composed of thoroughly researched essays which brings together a range of case studies providing a pioneering perspective on the study of migrants in Britain and its empire integrating national with global migration." Panikos Panayi, De Montfort University, UK
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Part 1
Introduction
1Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 18151949
Andrekos Varnava, Yianni Cartledge and Evan Smith
Part 2
The Metropole
2Eternal Poles: The Rise and Decline of British Sympathy towards the
Polish Refugees in the First Half of the 19th Century
Milosz K. Cybowski
3Grateful to the Lord: A British Evangelical Response to the 19th Century
Migration of Jews from Eastern Europe
Jemima Jarman
4Asylum and Historical Memory in Victorian Britain
Thomas C. Jones
5The Centre of Human Woe and Pathos: The British Port Environment and the
Right to Asylum, 19051914
Vesna Curlic
6My Brothers Keeper? Church of England Responses to Jewish Refugees from
Europe, 19331939
Chana Revell Kotzin
7Liverpools Chinese Community: The Second World War, Exile, and
Repatriation
Andrew Williams
8Polish Medical Refugees in Britain during and Immediately after the Second
World War
Micha Adam Palacz
9Refugees from the Imperial Nation: The Poyais Case and Belize, 1823
Jeffrey Jones
Part 3
British Imperial Experiences
10Seeking securo asilo: Maltas Italian Refugee Crisis, 18151848
Leslie Rogne Schumacher
11Chiot Refugees in the British Empire after the Chios Massacre (1822)
Yianni Cartledge
12The Most Useless Class of Emigrants: Female Irish Famine Orphans in
Colonial Australia, 18481850
Jade Hastings
13Refugees from China to Hong Kong during the Treaty Ports Era
Rosaria Franco
14Controlling Colonial Borders: The Politics and Imperialism of White
Russian Refugee Settlement in British Cyprus
Andrekos Varnava
15Refugee Campaigns in the Communist Press in Britain and Australia in the
1930s
Evan Smith
Index
Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, is Professor of Imperial History at Flinders University and Honorary Professor at De Montfort University. He has published 4 monographs, 17 edited collections, and over 70 papers. He is the new Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History.
Yianni Cartledge is a lecturer in Greek studies (culture) at Flinders University. His research interests include migration and the migrant experience, diaspora studies, Mediterranean histories (particularly those of the British and Ottoman Empires), and the history of modern Greece.
Evan Smith is a Visiting Fellow at the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Humanities, University of Adelaide. He has published widely on the history of social movements, political extremism, national security, and borders.
