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Title
Refugees and the Promise of Asylum in Postwar France, 1945-1995 / by Greg Burgess.
Edition
1st ed. 2019.
ISBN
9781137440273 (electronic book)
1137440279
9781137440266
Published
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2019 ; Imprint Palgrave Macmillan.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 296 pages) : illustration.
Call Number
KJV4189
Dewey Decimal Classification
342.44083
Summary
This book recounts Frances responses to refugees from the liberation of Paris in 1944 to the end of the civil wars in the former Yugoslavia in 1995. It questions whether France fulfilled the promise of asylum for those persecuted for the 'cause of liberty made in its Constitution of 1946. Post-war development and the demand for immigrant workers were favourable to refugees from the Communist east, from Francos Spain, from Hungary after insurrection of 1956, and later from Latin America and Indochina. Asylum developed nationally in conjunction with international developments, the interventions of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and the adoption of the 1951 Refugee Convention. Economic ruptures in the 1970s, however, and the appearance of refugees from Asia and Africa, led to the assertion of national priorities and brought about a sense of crisis, and questions about whether France could continue to fulfil its promise.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Chapter 1. Introduction: The Promise of Asylum
Chapter 2. The Post-War Convergence
Population, Immigration, Refugees, 1944-1945
Chapter 3. Refugees, Deportees and Repatriates after 1944
Chapter 4. The 'Neo Refugees'' of Spain and the East
Chapter 5. The Refugee Convention and a Law on Asylum, 1951-1952
Chapter 6. The OFPRA and its refugees, 1952-1960
Chapter 7. The Crossroads of the 1960s. A Retreat for Humanitarian Asylum
Chapter 8. Exiles, Repatriates, and Refuges without the Name
Chapter 9. Asylum in Crisis.
