Internment Refugee Camps : : Historical and Contemporary Perspectives.

• Superior document: Histoire Series ; v.192
• Author: Anderl, Gabriele.
• TeilnehmendeR: Erker, Linda.; Reinprecht, Christoph.
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag,, 2023.; Ã2022.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Histoire Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (314 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I The polysemic function (character) of camps -- Internment practices during the First and Second World Wars -- Austrians in Trinidadian internment during the Second World War -- Rehabilitation through labour -- United Nations versus the Federal Agency -- Can camp life create a common world? -- Part II (Dis)empowering role of humanitarian intervention -- Interventions by non-governmental organisations in state-run internment camps in France -- Reconstructing Lives, Creating Citizens -- Civilian internees, common criminals or dangerous communists? -- Vicious circles of disempowerment -- Enhancing agency and empowerment in refugee camps as total institutions - real or illusory? -- Part III Strategies of coping and resistance -- Undesirable asylum-seekers from National Socialist Germany in France -- Singing and dancing for freedom of movement -- Room(s) for children? -- Part IV Pathways and transitions -- Cycles of incarceration -- Forced to flee and deemed suspect -- Filling the gap -- The life and afterlife of a twentieth-century French camp: Gurs -- Hard time in the Big Easy -- Annex -- Index of Names -- Short Biographies of contributors and editors.