Remembering refugees : then and now
Kushner, Tony200610UU
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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.
Main title:
Remembering refugees : then and now / Tony Kushner.
Author:
Edition:
Annotated ed.
Imprint:
Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2006.
Collation:
272 p. ; 23x16x3 cm.
Notes:
Hardback.
Audience:
Undergraduate.
Contents:
Introduction 1. Refugees - The Forgotten of History, the Abused of Politics 2. Heritage and the Refugees 3. Writing Refugees: Memory Work during the Nazi era 4. The Kinder - A Case of Selective Memory? 5. Remembering to Exclude: A Turn of the Twenty First Century Immorality Tale Conclusion: History, Memory and the Ethics of Asylum Bibliography.
Biography/History:
Tony Kushner is Marcus Sieff Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Southampton.
ISBN:
9780719068829 (hbk)0719068827 (hbk)
Dewey class:
940.531
Language:
English
Subject:
Refugees -- History -- Great BritainRefugees -- Historiography -- Great BritainPolitical refugees -- History -- Great BritainPolitical refugees -- Historiography -- Great BritainBritish & Irish historySecond World WarPostwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000Refugees & political asylumHistory
BRN:
2428349
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