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Refugees and Population Transfer Management in Europe, 1914–1920s book cover

1st Edition

Refugees and Population Transfer Management in Europe, 1914–1920s

Edited By Kamil Ruszała Copyright 2025
354 Pages 9 Color & 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

354 Pages 9 Color & 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

354 Pages 9 Color & 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book provides a comprehensive study of refugee movements and population transfers across Europe during the First World War and the early postwar period. Drawing parallels with contemporary migration issues, the book serves a social and educational purpose by highlighting Europe's history of migration and emphasizing the relevance of past experiences to current challenges. It seeks to... Read more

PART 1: Refugees and (post)war migrants as lessons from the past

1.      War refugees: an Endless Journey? Lessons from the past and present

Kamil Ruszała

 

2.      Refugees in the Greater War: still a long way to go?

Peter Gatrell

 

PART 2: State Control, Political Tool and Refugees

 

3.      “Under such extraordinary circumstances”: the Norwegian state’s attempt at defining and controlling refugees and migrants during the First World War

Eirik Brazier and Nik Brandal

 

4.      Refugees as a “political tool”: the propaganda of the “Prokuden zemedelec” and “Osvoboždenie” newspapers (1920–1923)

Tsvetelina Tsvetkova

 

 

PART 3: Refugee Camps and Beyond

 

5.      National mobilization, humanitarian agency from Below, and wartime authorities: Polish refugees from Galicia in Salzburg during the First World War

Kamil Ruszała

 

6.      The others: refugees seen from the Slovenian perspective of the First World War

Gregor Antoličič and Petra Svoljšak

 

7.      “National consciousness and honor are not betrayed anywhere”:  the organization and self-organization of Ukrainian refugees in Gmünd camp (1915–1918)

Iryna Orlevych and Natalia Kolb

 

8.      Rumors, imperial “humanitarianism,” and the destruction of the Armenian refugee camps in Syria and Lebanon, 1918–1926

Victoria Abrahamyan

 

PART 4: Refugees and humanitarianism

 

9.      Civic humanitarianism: Glasgow, the Great War, and Belgian refugees

Kieran Taylor

 

10.  Non-governmental assistance to Latvian refugees after 1918: the involvement of the Latvian diaspora

Kristine Bekere

 

PART 5: Postwar Population Order

 

11.  Population changes in Latvia 1914–1920: the refugee factor

Eriks Jekabsons

 

12.  (Regular) Immigration Controls in the Interwar (Semi-)Periphery? East-Central- and Southeast European Policy Patterns, 1918–1928

Aleksandar R. Miletić

 

13.  Where did they come from? The composition of the Polish population in 1921 as a result of war-related migratory movement

Bartosz Ogórek

 

14.  Statelessness and the limits of national sovereignty: German and Russian refugees in the early Weimar Republic

Anna Mashi

 

 

Biography

Kamil Ruszała is Assistant Professor in Modern History at Jagiellonian University, specializing in East Central Europe in the 19th to 20th centuries, with a particular focus on the Habsburg Empire, the First World War, post-imperial transformation, refugees and migrants, as well as war commemoration and heritage.

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