Refugees and the End of Empire : Imperial Collapse and Forced Migration in the Twentieth Century

An Examination Of The Relationship Between Imperial Collapse, The Emergence Of Successor Nationalism, The Exclusion Of Ethnic Groups And The Refugee Experience. Written By Both Established Authorities And Younger Scholars, This Book Offers A Unique International Comparative Approach To The Study Of Refugees At The End Of Empire. Imperial Collapse And The Creation Of Refugees In Twentieth-century Europe / Panikos Panayi -- The End Of The European Colonial Empires And Forced Migration : Some Comparative Case Studies / Ian Talbot -- The Tragedy Of The Rimlands, Nation-state Formation And The Destruction Of Imperial Peoples, 1912-48 / Mark Levene -- Fantasies Of Ethnic Unmixing : 'population Transfer' And The End Of Empire In Europe / Matthew Frank -- Displacing Empire : Refugee Welfare, National Activism And State Legitimacy In Austria-hungary In The First World War / Julie Thorpe -- Integration Without Assimilation In An Impermanent Landscape : Dispossession And Forced Migration In The Arab Middle East / Dawn Chatty -- Armenian Women Refugees At The End Of Empire : Strategies Of Survival / Victoria Rowe -- 'no Home But In Memory' : The Legacies Of Colonial Rule In The Punjab / Pippa Virdee -- Escape From Violence : The 1947 Partition Of India And The Migration Of Kashmiri Muslim Refugees / Ilyas Chattha -- Dissident Memories : Exploring Bengali Refugee Narratives In The Andaman Islands / Uditi Sen -- 'green For Come' : Moving To York As A Ugandan Asian Refugee / Emma Robertson -- Conclusions And Legacies / Panikos Panayi And Pippa Virdee. Edited By Panikos Panayi And Pippa Virdee. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover......Page 1 Half Title......Page 2 Series......Page 3 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Preface: Key Themes, Concepts and Rationale......Page 8 Notes on Contributors......Page 26 Part I Introduction......Page 30 1 Imperial Collapse and the Creation of Refugees in Twentieth-Century Europe......Page 32 2 The End of the European Colonial Empires and Forced Migration: Some Comparative Case Studies......Page 57 3 The Tragedy of the Rimlands, Nation-State Formation and the Destruction of Imperial Peoples, 1912–48......Page 80 Part II Imperial Collapse in Europe and the Middle East......Page 108 4 Fantasies of Ethnic Unmixing: ‘Population Transfer’ and the End of Empire in Europe......Page 110 5 Displacing Empire: Refugee Welfare, National Activism and State Legitimacy in Austria-Hungary in the First World War......Page 131 6 Integration without Assimilation in an Impermanent Landscape: Dispossession and Forced Migration in the Arab Middle East......Page 156 7 Armenian Women Refugees at the End of Empire: Strategies of Survival......Page 181 Part III The Consequences and Legacies of British Imperial Collapse......Page 202 8 ‘No Home but in Memory’: The Legacies of Colonial Rule in the Punjab......Page 204 9 Escape from Violence: The 1947 Partition of India and the Migration of Kashmiri Muslim Refugees......Page 225 10 Dissident Memories: Exploring Bengali Refugee Narratives in the Andaman Islands......Page 248 11 ‘Green for Come’: Moving to York as a Ugandan Asian Refugee......Page 274 Part IV Conclusion......Page 298 Conclusions and Legacies......Page 300 Select Bibliography of Key Works......Page 321 Index......Page 326 This volume examines the relationship between imperial collapse, the emergence of successor nationalism, the exclusion of ethnic groups with the wrong credentials, and the refugee experience. It brings together a coherent range of essays, written by established authorities and emerging scholars, which offer a highly original and comparative way of examining the refugee experience on a global scale. The book is structured into three distinct sections. The first of these contains three overview pieces introducing the key themes in the volume. The second focuses specifically upon the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires at the end of the First World War, with individual essays on specific case studies. The third examines 'The Consequences and Legacy of British Imperial Collapse', with a particular focus upon the experiences of South Asians immediately after the partition of India and the specific case of Uganda An examination ofathe relationship between imperial collapse, the emergence of successor nationalism, the exclusion of ethnic groups and the refugee experience. Written by both established authorities and younger scholars, this book offers a unique international comparative approach to the study of refugees at the end of empire