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Britannia's Embrace - Modern Humanitarianism and the Imperial Origins of Refugee Relief (Hardcover)
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Britannia's Embrace - Modern Humanitarianism and the Imperial Origins of Refugee Relief (Hardcover)
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On the eve of the American Revolution, the refugee was, according
to British tradition, a Protestant who sought shelter from
continental persecution. By the turn of the twentieth century,
however, British refuge would be celebrated internationally as
being open to all persecuted foreigners. Britain had become a haven
for fugitives as diverse as Karl Marx and Louis Napoleon, Simon
Bolivar and Frederick Douglass. How and why did the refugee
category expand? How, in a period when no law forbade foreigners
entry to Britain, did the refugee emerge as a category for
humanitarian and political action? Why did the plight of these
particular foreigners become such a characteristically British
concern? Current understandings about the origins of refuge have
focused on the period after 1914. Britannia's Embrace offers the
first historical analysis of the origins of this modern
humanitarian norm in the long nineteenth century. At a time when
Britons were reshaping their own political culture, this charitable
endeavor became constitutive of what it meant to be liberal on the
global stage. Like British anti-slavery, its sister movement,
campaigning on behalf of foreign refugees seemed to give purpose to
the growing empire and the resources of empire gave it greater
strength. By the dawn of the twentieth century, British efforts on
behalf of persecuted foreigners declined precipitously, but its
legacies in law and in modern humanitarian politics would be
long-lasting. In telling this story,Britannia's Embrace puts
refugee relief front and center in histories of human rights and
international law and of studies of Britain in the world. In so
doing, it describes the dynamic relationship between law,
resources, and moral storytelling that remains critical to
humanitarianism today.
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