The exodus of refugees from Nazi Germany in the 1930s has received
far more attention from historians, social scientists, and
demographers than many other migrations and persecutions in Europe.
However, as a result of the overwhelming attention that has been
given to the Holocaust within the historiography of Europe and the
Second World War, the issues surrounding the flight of people from
Nazi Germany prior to 1939 have been seen as Vorgeschichte
(pre-history), implicating the Western European democracies and the
United States as bystanders only in the impending tragedy. Based on
a comparative analysis of national case studies, this volume deals
with the challenges that the pre-1939 movement of refugees from
Germany and Austria posed to the immigration controls in the
countries of interwar Europe. Although Europe takes center-stage,
this volume also looks beyond, to the Middle East, Asia and
America. This global perspective outlines the constraints under
which European policy makers (and the refugees) had to make
decisions. By also considering the social implications of policies
that became increasingly protectionist and nationalistic, and
bringing into focus the similarities and differences between
European liberal states in admitting the refugees, it offers an
important contribution to the wider field of research on political
and administrative practices.
Frank Caestecker read history at the University of Ghent and
worked as an eligibility officer for UNHCR and the Belgian asylum
institution. He completed his graduate studies at the European
University Institute in Florence and is now affiliated to the
University of Ghent and the University College Ghent, focusing his
research on alien policy in the nineteenth- and twentieth centuries
and the influence this policy has on migration dynamics.
Bob Moore is Professor of Twentieth-Century European History at
the University of Sheffield. He has published extensively on the
History of the Second World War, and specifically on the Holocaust,
the Netherlands, and Prisoners of War. He is currently completing a
book about the rescuers of Jews in Western Europe during the Nazi
occupation.
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