Description:
Taylor's exploration and insight into the debates around national identity and the privilege of citizenship challenges our understanding of nationality in the postwar period.
Brief description:
Lynne Taylor is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Waterloo.
Review Quotes:
"Taylor is able to build upon the considerable existing literature on refugees and the American Occupation of Germany. However, her study is most welcome since child refugees are understudied in both...Taylor also breaks important new ground by describing the child search activities in Germany of UNRAA and the IRO, and her well chosen case studies are among the most interesting and gripping parts of her book."
--Thomas W. Maulucci, Jr., American International College, European History Quarterly, Vol. 48 no 4, 2018"This is less a history of unaccompanied children and more so an investigation of the shifting ground of child welfare policies. In ten fine-grained chapters, readers follow the relief efforts of the United Nation Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and International Refugee Organization in the immediate postwar period, when various national governments laid claim to displaced children and youth."
--Barbara Lorenzkowski, Concordia University, The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, vol 12 no 2, Spring 2019