Description: The contributors facilitate an extensive engagement with the organized, state led, and forced placement of refugees in the past and present. They show the parallels and differences between the practices and types of internment in different countries - while considering the specific historical contexts.
Brief description: Gabriele Anderl (Dr.) is a freelance researcher in Vienna. She worked for the Austrian Historical Commission and for the Austrian Commission for Provenance Research and is vice president of the Austrian Society for Exile Research (öge). She published numerous books and articles in the field of contemporary history, especially on the National Socialist era, on flight, rescue and exile.
Review Quotes: »A thought-provoking volume that helps us understand the complexities of an institution that has returned, inforce, to our contemporary world.«-- "Aidan Forth, Francia recensio, 3 (2023)"