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Author Balint, Ruth, author.

Title Destination elsewhere : displaced persons and their quest to leave postwar Europe Ruth Balint
Published Ithaca, [New York] Cornell University Press 2021
©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 190 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates) illustrations
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Contents Telling the Truth in Postwar Europe -- "There Has Been a Lot of Dirt Here" : Denunciations and Accusations -- Housewives and Opportunists : Categorizing DP Women and Wives -- Unaccompanied Children and Unfit Mothers -- The Children Left Behind -- "The top-heavy slow-turning wheel" : From Europe to Australia -- Address Unknown : Tracing the Disappeared -- Conclusion : History off the Leash
Summary "This book examines the efforts and experiences of displaced persons after the Second World War to leave Europe for resettlement through the International Refugee Organisation, and the creation of new categories of legitimacy for refugees as immigrants in this period"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis Refugee history before 1951, The International Refugee Organization, Postwar migration to australia, The international tracing service and displaced persons, modern refugee crisis,
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 19, 2021)
Subject International Refugee Organization.
SUBJECT International Refugee Organization fast
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Europe
Refugees -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
Refugees -- Government policy -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY / Military / World War II
Emigration and immigration
Refugees
Refugees -- Government policy
SUBJECT Europe -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century
Subject Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020058197
ISBN 150176022X
9781501760235
1501760238
9781501760228