Aliens: The Chequered History of Britain’s Wartime Refugees 9781785908354, 9781785907937

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Table of contents :
Contents

Title Page
Dedication
Introduction: A Proud Tradition?
Chapter 1: A Catalogue of Calamities: Britain in the 1930s
Chapter 2: ‘Scurrying’ from Germany: The First Arrivals
Chapter 3: Feeding Red Children: The Spanish Civil War
Chapter 4: A Lost Opportunity: The Évian Conference
Chapter 5: Escape: The Lucky 80,000
Chapter 6: The Enemy Within: The War Begins
Chapter 7: Satellites of the Monster: Internment
Chapter 8: Punches, Kicks and Painful Prods: Internment Overseas
Chapter 9: Valuable Work: Refugees and the War Effort
Chapter 10: Other Newcomers to These Shores: GIs and POWs
Chapter 11: ‘It Only Makes Me Hate Them More’: Antisemitism and the Camps
Chapter 12: The Ants’ Nest: After the War
Chapter 13: From Soldiers to Refugees: Poland after the War
Chapter 14: Echoes of King Canute: Israel
Conclusion: An ‘Ecosystem of Hostility’: The Twenty-First Century
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
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