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This book provides a comprehensive study of refugee movements and population transfers across Europe during World War 1 and the early postwar period.
List of contents
PART 1: Refugees and (post)war migrants as lessons from the past
1. War refugees: an Endless Journey? Lessons from the past and present
Kamil Ruszała
2. Refugees in the Greater War: still a long way to go?
Peter Gatrell
PART 2: State Control, Political Tool and Refugees
3. “Under such extraordinary circumstances”: the Norwegian state’s attempt at defining and controlling refugees and migrants during the First World War
Eirik Brazier, Nik Brandal
4. Refugees as a “political tool”: the propaganda of the “Prokuden zemedelec” and “Osvoboždenie” newspapers (1920–1923)
Tsvetelina Tsvetkova
PART 3: Refugee Camps and Beyond
5. National mobilization, humanitarian agency from Below, and wartime authorities: Polish refugees from Galicia in Salzburg during the First World War
Kamil Ruszała
6. The others: refugees seen from the Slovenian perspective of the First World War
Gregor Antoličič, Petra Svoljšak
7. “National consciousness and honor are not betrayed anywhere”: the organization and self-organization of Ukrainian refugees in Gmünd camp (1915–1918)
Iryna Orlevych, Nataliia Kolb
8. Rumors, imperial “humanitarianism” and the destruction of the Armenian refugee camps in Syria and Lebanon, 1918–1926
Victoria Abrahamyan
PART 4: Refugees and humanitarianism
9. Civic humanitarianism: Glasgow, the Great War and Belgian refugees
Kieran Taylor
10. Non-governmental assistance to Latvian refugees after 1918: the involvement of the Latvian diaspora
Kristine Bekere
PART 5: Postwar Population Order
11. Population changes in Latvia 1914–1920: the refugee factor
Eriks Jekabsons
12. (Regular) Immigration Controls in the Interwar (Semi-)Periphery? East-Central- and Southeast European Policy Patterns, 1918–1928
Aleksandar R. Miletić
13. Where did they come from? The composition of the Polish population in 1921 as a result of war-related migratory movement
Bartosz Ogórek
14. Statelessness and the limits of national sovereignty. German and Russian refugees in the early Weimar Republic
Anna Mashi
About the author
Kamil Ruszała is Assistant Professor in Modern History at Jagiellonian University, specializing in East Central Europe in the 19th to 20th centuries, with a particular focus on the Habsburg Empire, the First World War, post-imperial transformation, refugees and migrants, as well as war commemoration and heritage.
Summary
This book provides a comprehensive study of refugee movements and population transfers across Europe during World War 1 and the early postwar period.
