Tony Kushner

Remembering refugees

Then and now

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Refugee crises are one of the gravest problems facing the modern world. This book explores the paradox of why countries such as Britain pride themselves on their past treatment of refugees yet are suspicious and hostile towards asylum seekers trying to gain entry. It explores the contemporary treatment and representation of refugees ranging from the Huguenots in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries through to the many groups that have gained entry more recently. Was the treatment of refugees such as Jews escaping Tsarist and later Nazi persecution as welcoming as politicians and others now make out? Why have some groups been remembered positively, while others have been forgotten?

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At a time of growing refugee crises across the modern world, this is the first book that examines how Britain remembers its past refugees, from the Huguenots through to the many groups who came in the twentieth century. It looks at how that memory has shaped treatment of contemporary asylum seekers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 421g
• ISBN-13: 9780719068836
• ISBN-10: 0719068835
• Artikelnr.: 22781231

Autorenporträt

Tony Kushner is Marcus Sieff Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Southampton

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Refugees - The Forgotten of History, the Abused of Politics
2. Heritage and the Refugees 3. Writing Refugees: Memory Work during the
Nazi era 4. The Kinder - A Case of Selective Memory? 5. Remembering to
Exclude: A Turn of the Twenty First Century Immorality Tale Conclusion:
History, Memory and the Ethics of Asylum Bibliography