Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815-1949 /

Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815-1949 /

This volume explores the forced migration of people, defined briefly as when individuals or groups are compelled to leave their home countries due to various (though predominantly political) factors, to the UK and the British Empire from 1815 to 1949. With a uniquely international and inclusive scop...

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Other Authors: Cartledge, Yianni (Editor), Smith, Evan (Editor), Varnava, Andreko (Editor)

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Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Studies in Global Social History ; 55/18.

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Forced migration > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Refugees > Great Britain > History > 19th century.

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Call Number: HV640.4.G7

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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Part 1
  • Introduction
  • 1 Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815-1949
  • Andrekos Varnava, Yianni Cartledge and Evan Smith
  • Part 2
  • The Metropole
  • 2 'Eternal Poles': The Rise and Decline of British Sympathy towards the Polish Refugees in the First Half of the 19th Century
  • Milosz K. Cybowski
  • 3 'Grateful to the Lord': A British Evangelical Response to the 19th Century Migration of Jews from Eastern Europe
  • Jemima Jarman
  • 4 Asylum and Historical Memory in Victorian Britain
  • Thomas C. Jones
  • 5 'The Centre of Human Woe and Pathos': The British Port Environment and the Right to Asylum, 1905-1914
  • Vesna Curlic
  • 6 My Brother's Keeper? Church of England Responses to Jewish Refugees from Europe, 1933-1939
  • Chana Revell Kotzin
  • 7 Liverpool's Chinese Community: The Second World War, Exile, and Repatriation
  • Andrew Williams
  • 8 Polish Medical Refugees in Britain during and Immediately after the Second World War
  • Michał Adam Palacz
  • 9 Refugees from the Imperial Nation: The Poyais Case and Belize, 1823
  • Jeffrey Jones
  • Part 3
  • British Imperial Experiences
  • 10 Seeking securo asilo : Malta's Italian Refugee Crisis, 1815-1848
  • Leslie Rogne Schumacher
  • 11 Chiot Refugees in the British Empire after the Chios Massacre (1822)
  • Yianni Cartledge
  • 12 'The Most Useless Class of Emigrants': Female Irish Famine Orphans in Colonial Australia, 1848-1850
  • Jade Hastings
  • 13 Refugees from China to Hong Kong during the Treaty Ports Era
  • Rosaria Franco
  • 14 Controlling Colonial Borders: The Politics and Imperialism of White Russian Refugee Settlement in British Cyprus
  • Andrekos Varnava
  • 15 Refugee Campaigns in the Communist Press in Britain and Australia in the 1930s
  • Evan Smith
  • Index.