Scott Soo

The routes to exile (eBook, ePUB)

France and the Spanish Civil War refugees, 1939-2009

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

As they trudged over the Pyrenees, the Spanish republicans became one of the most iconoclastic groups of refugees to have sought refuge in twentieth-century France. This book explores the array of opportunities, constraints, choices and motivations that characterised their lives. Using a wide range of empirical material, it presents a compelling case for rethinking exile in relation to refugees' lived experiences and memory activities. The major historical events of the period are covered: the development of refugees' rights and the 'concentration' camps of the Third Republic, the para-military labour formations of the Second World War, the dynamics shaping resistance activities, and the role of memory in the campaign to return to Spain. This study additionally analyses how these experiences have shaped homes and France's memorial landscape, thereby offering an unparalleled exploration of the long-term effects of exile from the mass exodus of 1939 through to the seventieth-anniversary commemorations in 2009.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: CABI
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526102522
• Artikelnr.: 48795049

Autorenporträt

Scott Soo is Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Southampton

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: coming to terms with the Spanish republican exile in France Part I: The onset of exile 1 Unravelling rights and identities: the exodus of 1939 2 Reception
internment and repatriation
1939-40 3 Organisations
networks and identities
1939-40 Part II: Working in from the margins 4 Ambiguities at work: refugees and the French war economy
1939-40 5 Work
surveillance
refusal and revolt in Vichy and German-Occupied France
1940-44 Part III: Aspirations of return
commemoration and home 6 Mobilisation
commemoration and return
1944-55 7 Moving memories
1970-2009 Conclusion: trajectories and legacies Index