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Outcast Europe : refugees and relief workers in an era of total war, 1936-48
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Outcast Europe : refugees and relief workers in an era of total war, 1936-48

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Machine generated contents note: The Inner World of the Refugee
Defining Refugees
Writing Refugees
Historians and Refugees
The Great Journey: Transformative Movement and the Second World War
pt. 1 The Midnight Of The Century
1.The Retirada: Spanish Republican Refugees, 1939
The Refugees' War
Images of France
Organizing the Retirada
The French Reception: Watching the War
The French Reception: Organizing Welfare
The French Reception: The Spanish Experience
The French Reception: Controlling the Flood
Conclusion
2.At the Limits of the Nation State: French Evacuations, 1939-1940
Planning Evacuation
Evacuation in Wartime
Preparing for the Evacuees
Evacuation Stories
Reception and a New Life
Alsace and Lorraine after the Evacuation
Conclusion
3.The Exodus: French Internal Refugees, 1940
The Broken Hinge
May 1940
Soldiers and Civilians: Encounters on the Road
Images of the Crowd: The Mindless Underworld
.Making Sense of the Exode
Solidarity on the Road
Conclusion
4.After the Exodus: Return, Expulsion and Escape
The Challenges of Return
Returning Home
Other Journeys: Continuing Southwards
Other Journeys: V̀isa: A Hundred-Act Vexation'
A Second Exode? The Expulsions of Alsatians and Mosellans
Conclusion
pt. 2 False Dawn
5.Lessons Unlearned: Wartime Debates and the Creation of UNRRA
Ending Another War
Neutrality and Commitment: the Red Cross and UNRRA
Planning UNRRA
Criticizing UNRRA, Defending UNRRA
Recording UNRRA: Beyond Bureaucracy
Joining UNRRA
UNRRA at Granville
Zones and Organizations
Conclusion
6.Into Darkest Germany
Travelling into Germany
Finding the Camps
Documents and DPs
The Status of the Relief Worker
Frauleins, Girls and Ladies: Women Relief Workers
Requisitioning, Scrounging and the Black Market
Helping the People Help Themselves
Dedication and Commitment
Conclusion
.7.In the Camps
The Politics of Empathy
The Politics of Critique
A Liberation that was not a Liberation
DPs and Nationality
Protests, Initiatives and National Resurgence
DPs and Relief Workers
Conclusion
8.Other Paths: Returning to Nationhood
Returning to Poland
R̀eturning' to Israel
Conclusion.

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Outcast Europe : refugees and relief workers in an era of total war, 1936-48. ISBN 9781441102447. Published by Continuum in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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