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: Linda Erker (Dr.) is a historian and postdoc researcher at the Department of Contemporary History at Universität Wien. In her postdoc project she focuses on the migration of knowledge and the migration of scholars from Austria to Latin America between 1930 and 1970 (especially to Argentina and Chile). She is a board member of the öge.
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)"