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Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815–1949
Series: - Studies in Global Social History, Volume: 55/18
- Studies in Global Migration History, Volume: 55/18
This volume explores the forced migration of people, defined briefly as when individuals or groups are compelled to leave their home countries due to various (though predominantly political) factors, to the UK and the British Empire from 1815 to 1949. With a uniquely international and inclusive scope, this volume is a welcome contribution to our understanding of forced migrations over this 135-year period. It aims to kickstart future work on this subject and provide the basis for a more truly global understanding of refugees, forced migrations, and border controls in modern history.
Contributors are: Yianni Cartledge, Vesna Curlic, Milosz K. Cybowski, Rosaria Franco, Jade Hastings, Jemima Jarman, Jeffrey Jones, Thomas C. Jones, Chana Revell Kotzin, Michał Adam Palacz, Leslie Rogne Schumacher, Evan Smith, Andrekos Varnava, and Andrew Williams.
Contributors are: Yianni Cartledge, Vesna Curlic, Milosz K. Cybowski, Rosaria Franco, Jade Hastings, Jemima Jarman, Jeffrey Jones, Thomas C. Jones, Chana Revell Kotzin, Michał Adam Palacz, Leslie Rogne Schumacher, Evan Smith, Andrekos Varnava, and Andrew Williams.
Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, is Professor of Imperial History at Flinders University and Honorary Professor at De Montfort University. He has published 4 monographs, 17 edited collections, and over 70 papers. He is the new Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History.
Yianni Cartledge is a lecturer in Greek studies (culture) at Flinders University. His research interests include migration and the migrant experience, diaspora studies, Mediterranean histories (particularly those of the British and Ottoman Empires), and the history of modern Greece.
Evan Smith is a Visiting Fellow at the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Humanities, University of Adelaide. He has published widely on the history of social movements, political extremism, national security, and borders.
Yianni Cartledge is a lecturer in Greek studies (culture) at Flinders University. His research interests include migration and the migrant experience, diaspora studies, Mediterranean histories (particularly those of the British and Ottoman Empires), and the history of modern Greece.
Evan Smith is a Visiting Fellow at the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Humanities, University of Adelaide. He has published widely on the history of social movements, political extremism, national security, and borders.
"A high-quality volume composed of thoroughly researched essays which brings together a range of case studies providing a pioneering perspective on the study of migrants in Britain and its empire integrating national with global migration." – Panikos Panayi, De Montfort University, UK
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Part 1
Introduction
1 Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815–1949
Andrekos Varnava, Yianni Cartledge and Evan Smith
Part 2
The Metropole
2 ‘Eternal Poles’: The Rise and Decline of British Sympathy towards the Polish Refugees in the First Half of the 19th Century
Milosz K. Cybowski
3 ‘Grateful to the Lord’: A British Evangelical Response to the 19th Century Migration of Jews from Eastern Europe
Jemima Jarman
4 Asylum and Historical Memory in Victorian Britain
Thomas C. Jones
5 ‘The Centre of Human Woe and Pathos’: The British Port Environment and the Right to Asylum, 1905–1914
Vesna Curlic
6 My Brother’s Keeper? Church of England Responses to Jewish Refugees from Europe, 1933–1939
Chana Revell Kotzin
7 Liverpool’s Chinese Community: The Second World War, Exile, and Repatriation
Andrew Williams
8 Polish Medical Refugees in Britain during and Immediately after the Second World War
Michał Adam Palacz
9 Refugees from the Imperial Nation: The Poyais Case and Belize, 1823
Jeffrey Jones
Part 3
British Imperial Experiences
10 Seeking securo asilo: Malta’s Italian Refugee Crisis, 1815–1848
Leslie Rogne Schumacher
11 Chiot Refugees in the British Empire after the Chios Massacre (1822)
Yianni Cartledge
12 ‘The Most Useless Class of Emigrants’: Female Irish Famine Orphans in Colonial Australia, 1848–1850
Jade Hastings
13 Refugees from China to Hong Kong during the Treaty Ports Era
Rosaria Franco
14 Controlling Colonial Borders: The Politics and Imperialism of White Russian Refugee Settlement in British Cyprus
Andrekos Varnava
15 Refugee Campaigns in the Communist Press in Britain and Australia in the 1930s
Evan Smith
Index
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Part 1
Introduction
1 Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815–1949
Andrekos Varnava, Yianni Cartledge and Evan Smith
Part 2
The Metropole
2 ‘Eternal Poles’: The Rise and Decline of British Sympathy towards the Polish Refugees in the First Half of the 19th Century
Milosz K. Cybowski
3 ‘Grateful to the Lord’: A British Evangelical Response to the 19th Century Migration of Jews from Eastern Europe
Jemima Jarman
4 Asylum and Historical Memory in Victorian Britain
Thomas C. Jones
5 ‘The Centre of Human Woe and Pathos’: The British Port Environment and the Right to Asylum, 1905–1914
Vesna Curlic
6 My Brother’s Keeper? Church of England Responses to Jewish Refugees from Europe, 1933–1939
Chana Revell Kotzin
7 Liverpool’s Chinese Community: The Second World War, Exile, and Repatriation
Andrew Williams
8 Polish Medical Refugees in Britain during and Immediately after the Second World War
Michał Adam Palacz
9 Refugees from the Imperial Nation: The Poyais Case and Belize, 1823
Jeffrey Jones
Part 3
British Imperial Experiences
10 Seeking securo asilo: Malta’s Italian Refugee Crisis, 1815–1848
Leslie Rogne Schumacher
11 Chiot Refugees in the British Empire after the Chios Massacre (1822)
Yianni Cartledge
12 ‘The Most Useless Class of Emigrants’: Female Irish Famine Orphans in Colonial Australia, 1848–1850
Jade Hastings
13 Refugees from China to Hong Kong during the Treaty Ports Era
Rosaria Franco
14 Controlling Colonial Borders: The Politics and Imperialism of White Russian Refugee Settlement in British Cyprus
Andrekos Varnava
15 Refugee Campaigns in the Communist Press in Britain and Australia in the 1930s
Evan Smith
Index
This volume will appeal to academics, undergraduate and postgraduates, especially Research Higher Degree candidates, and anyone interested in migration studies (especially histories), and British imperial and colonies histories.