Refugees From Nazi Germany and the Liberal European States / / ed. by Frank Caestecker, Bob Moore.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Caestecker, Frank,; Caron, Vicki,; Curio, Claudia,; Halamish, Aviva,; Heim, Susanne,; Hochstadt, Steve,; Ludi, Regula,; Moore, Bob,; Mühlen, Patrick von zur,; Rünitz, Lone,; Zucker, Bat-Ami,
• HerausgeberIn: Caestecker, Frank,; Moore, Bob,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (358 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: National and International Analyses of Policies towards the Refugees from Nazi Germany -- I.1. International Refugee Policy and Jewish Immigration under the Shadow of National Socialism -- I.2 The Danish Immigration Authorities and the Issue of Rassenschande -- I.3 Unwilling Refuge: France and the Dilemma of Illegal Immigration, 1933–1939 -- I.4 Dwindling Options: Seeking Asylum in Switzerland 1933–1939 -- I.5 The 1930s: The End of the Latin American Open-door Policy -- I.6 Shanghai: A Last Resort for Desperate Jews -- I.7 Palestine as a Destination for Jewish Immigrants and Refugees from Nazi Germany -- I.8 American Refugee Policy in the 1930s -- I.9 Were Unaccompanied Child Refugees a Privileged Class of Refugees in the Liberal States of Europe? -- Part II: A Comparative Analysis of Immigration Policies of Liberal States in Western Europe and the Flight from Nazi Germany -- II.1. The Legal Construction of Policy towards Aliens prior to 1933 -- II.2 Refugees from Nazi Germany and the Development of Refugee Policies, 1933–1937 -- II.3 The Deepening Crisis: March 1938–October 1938 -- II.4 From Kristallnacht to War, November 1938–August 1939 -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes on Contributors -- Select Bibliography -- Index