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Asylum between Nations - Refugees in a Revolutionary Era (Hardcover)
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Asylum between Nations - Refugees in a Revolutionary Era (Hardcover)
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Why some of the most vulnerable communities in Europe, from
independent cities to new monarchies, welcomed refugees during the
Age of Revolutions and prospered  “Janet Polasky unearths
an unappreciated history of the experience of asylum in Europe and
the United States since the Age of the Democratic Revolutions.
Facing squarely the destruction of asylum in our own time, she ends
with a stunningly optimistic vision of a path toward its
reconstruction.”—Linda K. Kerber, author of No Constitutional
Right to Be Ladies  Driven from their homelands, refugees
from ancient times to the present have sought asylum in worlds
turned upside down. Theirs is an age‑old story. So too are the
solutions to their plight. Â In the wake of the American and
French Revolutions, thousands of men and women took to the roads
and waterways on both sides of the Atlantic—refugees in search of
their inalienable rights. Although larger nations fortified their
borders and circumscribed citizenship, two port cities, German
Hamburg and Danish Altona, opened their doors, as did the federated
Swiss cantons and the newly independent Belgian monarchy. The
refugees thrived and the societies that harbored them prospered.
The United States followed, not only welcoming waves of immigrants
in the mid‑nineteenth century but offering them citizenship as
well. Â In this remarkable story of the first modern refugee
crisis, historian Janet Polasky shows how open doors can be a
viable alternative to the building of border walls.
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