Remembering refugees : then and now
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. -- .
Print Book, English, 2006
Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2006
History
viii, 264 p ; 24 cm.
9780719068836, 9780719068829, 0719068835, 0719068827
1169939324
Introduction1. Refugees - The Forgotten of History, the Abused of Politics2. Heritage and the Refugees3. Writing Refugees: Memory Work during the Nazi era4. The Kinder - A Case of Selective Memory?5. Remembering to Exclude: A Turn of the Twenty First Century Immorality TaleConclusion: History, Memory and the Ethics of AsylumBibliography -- .