Unsettled - Refugee Camps and the Making of Multicultural Britain

Over the course of the twentieth century, dozens of British refugee camps housed hundreds of thousands of displaced people from across the globe. Unsettled explores the hidden world of these camps and traces the complicated relationships that emerged between refugees and citizens.

List of contents

• List of illustrations


• Map of Refugee Camps in Britain


• Introduction


• Interlude: Before the Camps


• 1: Making Camp


• 2: Feeding and Hungering


• 3: In Need


• 4: Happy Families?


• 5: Mixing Up


• 6: Hard Core


• Epilogue: Camps after Encampment


• Endnotes


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Jordanna Bailkin is a scholar of modern Britain and Empire. She is currently the Jere L. Bacharach Endowed Professor in International Studies and Professor of History at the University of Washington in Seattle. She is the author of The Culture of Property (2004), and The Afterlife of Empire (2012). The Afterlife of Empire won the Morris D. Forkosch Prize from the American Historical Association, the Stansky Book Prize from the North American Conference on British Studies, and the Biennial Book Prize from the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies. She has also written articles on tattooing in Burma, interracial murder in India, and parenthood in Nigeria.

Summary

Over the course of the twentieth century, dozens of British refugee camps housed hundreds of thousands of displaced people from across the globe. Unsettled explores the hidden world of these camps and traces the complicated relationships that emerged between refugees and citizens.

Product details

• Authors: Jordanna Bailkin, Jordanna (Professor of History and Jere L Bailkin, Bailkin Jordanna
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.01.2020
• EAN: 9780198859536
• ISBN: 978-0-19-885953-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); European History, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Social and cultural history, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum