Remembering Refugees - Then and Now

Informationen zum Autor Tony Kushner is Professor in History and director of the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton Klappentext At a time of growing refugee crises across the modern world, this is the first book that examines how Britain remembers its past refugees, from the Huguenots through to the many groups who came in the twentieth century. It looks at how that memory has shaped treatment of contemporary asylum seekers. Zusammenfassung At a time of growing refugee crises across the modern world! this is the first book that examines how Britain remembers its past refugees! from the Huguenots through to the many groups who came in the twentieth century. It looks at how that memory has shaped treatment of contemporary asylum seekers. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. Refugees - The Forgotten of History, the Abused of Politics2. Heritage and the Refugees3. Writing Refugees: Memory Work during the Nazi era4. The Kinder - A Case of Selective Memory?5. Remembering to Exclude: A Turn of the Twenty First Century Immorality TaleConclusion: History, Memory and the Ethics of AsylumBibliography

Produktdetails

• Autoren: tony Kushner, Tony (Professor Kushner
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.10.2006
• EAN: 9780719068836
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-6883-6
• Seiten: 272
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees, British & Irish history, Second World War, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General