Destination elsewhere : displaced persons and their quest to leave postwar Europe / Ruth Balint

Bibliographische Detailangaben
VerfasserIn: Balint, Ruth (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2021
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Telling the Truth in Postwar Europe
  • "There Has Been a Lot of Dirt Here" : Denunciations and Accusations
  • Housewives and Opportunists : Categorizing DP Women and Wives
  • Unaccompanied Children and Unfit Mothers
  • The Children Left Behind
  • "The top-heavy slow-turning wheel" : From Europe to Australia
  • Address Unknown : Tracing the Disappeared
  • Conclusion : History off the Leash. "This book examines the efforts and experiences of displaced persons after the Second World War to leave Europe for resettlement through the International Refugee Organisation, and the creation of new categories of legitimacy for refugees as immigrants in this period"--