TY - JOUR
T1 - Forced migration and refugee resettlement in the long 1940s
T2 - an introduction to its connected and global history
AU - Banerjee, Milinda
AU - Lingen, Kerstin von
PY - 2022/10/7
Y1 - 2022/10/7
N2 - When considering the wave of forced migrations during the Second World War in Europe and Asia, and the international and institutional responses thereof, we can speak about the 1940s as witnessing the birth of a global refugee resettlement regime. Organisations including the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), the International Refugee Organization (IRO), and eventually the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) placed refugee resettlement at the heart of constructing the postwar world order. This volume adopts a global optic to investigate the formation of this international resettlement regime in Europe and Asia, while also studying refugee camps and movements, agency of refugees and migrants, decision factors for resettlement, and the intellectual production of people on the move. A historicisation of the global resettlement regime of the long 1940s may well carry important political and ethical lessons for us today, if only to remind us of the connected fates of our common humanity, and the responsibilities we therefore bear towards our fellow human beings.
AB - When considering the wave of forced migrations during the Second World War in Europe and Asia, and the international and institutional responses thereof, we can speak about the 1940s as witnessing the birth of a global refugee resettlement regime. Organisations including the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), the International Refugee Organization (IRO), and eventually the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) placed refugee resettlement at the heart of constructing the postwar world order. This volume adopts a global optic to investigate the formation of this international resettlement regime in Europe and Asia, while also studying refugee camps and movements, agency of refugees and migrants, decision factors for resettlement, and the intellectual production of people on the move. A historicisation of the global resettlement regime of the long 1940s may well carry important political and ethical lessons for us today, if only to remind us of the connected fates of our common humanity, and the responsibilities we therefore bear towards our fellow human beings.
KW - Forced migration
KW - Asia
KW - Europe
KW - Global refugee resettlement scheme
UR - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/itinerario/issue/DF501A6934E90B51009A76AFEA02CF57
U2 - 10.1017/S0165115322000079
DO - 10.1017/S0165115322000079
M3 - Article
SN - 0165-1153
VL - 46
SP - 185
EP - 192
JO - Itinerario
JF - Itinerario
IS - 2
ER -