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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) |
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Cover; Unsettled: Refugee Camps and the Making of Multicultural Britain; Copyright; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; WHEN WAS A REFUGEE NOT A REFUGEE?; THE CAMP THAT IS NOT A CAMP; SO FAR, SO CLOSE: THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF ENDINGS IN REFUGEE HISTORY; CAMPS IN THE ARCHIVE: SCALING UP AND DOWN; Interlude: Before the Camps; 1: Making Camp; THE STUFF OF WAR: NISSEN HUTS AND THE LANDSCAPE OF MODERN BRITAIN; PREHISTORIES: COLONIAL CRISES, LABOR, AND INTERNMENT; MAKING THE REFUGEE CAMP: HOMELIKENESS AND HOMELESSNESS; 2: Feeding and Hungering |
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ON THE MENU: FOOD AND IDENTITY IN REFUGEE CAMPSLEAVING THE TABLE: FOOD PROTESTS AND HUNGER STRIKES; 3: In Need; SORTING AND MIXING: THE POLITICS OF ETHNICITY IN CAMP LIFE; CLASS IN THE CAMPS: MYTHS OF THE MIDDLE-CLASS REFUGEE; 4: Happy Families?; MAKING AND BREAKING FAMILIES: SINGLE MEN AND STATELESS HUSBANDS; SEX, INTIMACY, AND "IMMORALITY" IN CAMP LIFE; 5: Mixing Up; BREAKING BOUNDS: LOCALS AND THE REFUGEE CAMP; BRITONS IN NEED: CITIZENS IN THE REFUGEE CAMP; VOLUNTEERS IN THE CAMPS: RACE, EMPATHY, AND ENCAMPMENT; 6: Hard Core; POWER TRIPS: SELF-GOVERNANCE AND CULTURES OF COMPLAINT |
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THE POLITICS OF VIOLENCE: REFUGEE ACTIVISM IN THE CAMPSTHE CAMP AND THE GHETTO: THE STRANGE HISTORY OF DISPERSAL; LAST ACTS: REFUSING TO STAY, REFUSING TO LEAVE; Epilogue: Camps after Encampment; THE LAST REFUGEE CAMP? CAMP "CLOSURES" AND THE ENDS OF ENCAMPMENT; THE FATES OF THE CAMPS: WARFARE, AID, AND DETENTION; FORGETTING AND REMEMBERING ENCAMPMENT; THE FUTURE OF ENCAMPMENT; THE REFUGEE CAMP THAT NEVER WAS: RHODESIA AND BRITISH FANTASIES OF EMERGENCY; Endnotes; NOTES TO INTRODUCTION; NOTES TO INTERLUDE; NOTES TO CHAPTER 1; NOTES TO CHAPTER 2; NOTES TO CHAPTER 3; NOTES TO CHAPTER 4 |
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NOTES TO CHAPTER 5NOTES TO CHAPTER 6; NOTES TO EPILOGUE; Bibliography; ARCHIVES CONSULTED; WORKS CITED; Index |
| Summary |
Today, no one thinks of Britain as a land of camps. Instead, camps seem to happen "elsewhere," from Greece to Palestine to the global South. Yet over the course of the twentieth century, dozens of British refugee camps housed hundreds of thousands of Belgians, Jews, Basques, Poles, Hungarians, Anglo-Egyptians, Ugandan Asians, and Vietnamese. "Refugee camps" in Britain were never only for refugees. Refugees shared space with Britons who had been displaced by war and poverty, as well as thousands of civil servants and a fractious mix of volunteers. Unsettled explores how these camps have shaped today's multicultural Britain. They generated unique intimacies and frictions, illuminating the closeness of individuals that have traditionally been kept separate--"citizens" and "migrants," but also refugee populations from diverse countries and conflicts. As the world's refugee crisis once again brings to Europe the challenges of mass encampment, Unsettled offers warnings from a liberal democracy's recent past. Through anecdotes from interviews with former camp residents and workers and archival research, Unsettled conveys the vivid, everyday history of refugee camps, which witnessed births and deaths, love affairs and violent conflicts, strikes and protests, comedy and tragedy. Their story--like that of today's refugee crisis--is one of complicated intentions that played out in unpredictable ways. This book speaks to all who are interested in the plight of the encamped, and the global uses of encampment in our present world |
| Notes |
This edition previously issued in print: 2018 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 15, 2018) |
| Subject |
Refugee camps -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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Refugees -- Great Britain -- History
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Multiculturalism -- Great Britain -- History
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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Refugees
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Multiculturalism
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Ethnic relations
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Refugee camps
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191851827 |
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0191851825 |
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9780192545251 |
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0192545256 |
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