In war's wake
Subtitle: Europe's displaced persons in the postwar order
By: Gerard Daniel Cohen
Series: Oxford studies in international history
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780195399684
Subjects: Jewish refugees; Government policy; Jews; United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration; Migrations; Civilian relief; World War, 1939-1945; Humanitarianism; Emigration and immigration; Refugees; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the last million; title: The battle of the refugee : DPs and the making of the Cold War West; title: Who is a refugee? : from victors' justice to anticommunism; title: Care and maintenance : the new face of international humanitarianism; title: Displaced persons in the human rights revolution; title: Surplus manpower, surplus population; title: Extraterritorial Jews : refugee humanitarianism and the advent of Jewish statehood; title: Epilogue : the golden age of European refugees, 1945-1960.