Refugees and the Promise of Asylum in Postwar France, 1945-1995

• Main Author: Burgess, Greg (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: France-History.; Europe-History-1492-.; Social history.; World War, 1939-1945.; Emigration and immigration.; History of France.; History of Modern Europe.; Social History.; History of World War II and the Holocaust.; Migration.

This book recounts France's 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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.