04705nam a22006255i 4500 978-3-031-73986-6 DE-He213 20251030113305.0 cr nn 008mamaa 241108s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031739866 978-3-031-73986-6 10.1007/978-3-031-73986-6 doi D203.2-475 HBJD bicssc HBLL bicssc HIS010000 bisacsh NHD thema Bayley, Imogen. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 87258 Postwar Migration Policy and the Displaced of the British Zone in Germany, 1945–1951 [electronic resource] : Fighting for a Future / by Imogen Bayley. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XIII, 288 p. 1 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Palgrave Studies in Migration History, 2946-4366 Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Repatriation after ‘Liberation’ -- Chapter 3: Screening the ‘Genuine’ Postwar Refugee -- Chapter 4: The Worker’s Way Out: British Labour Recruitment Schemes -- Chapter 5: The Push for Palestine -- Chapter 6: The New World -- Chapter 7: While We Wait -- Chapter 8: The Gates Open -- Chapter 9: The Hard Core ‘Residue’ and Absorption in Germany -- Chapter 10: Conclusion: Fighting for a Future. This book examines the experiences of refugees who populated the Displaced Persons (DP) camps in the British Zone of Allied-occupied Germany after the Second World War. With a specific focus on Polish and Jewish communities, it explores the interaction between migration policy and the migration strategy of refugees - or in other words – the relationship between DP policy and individual choices, and how these evolved over time. The book aims to harmonize often contradictory images of displaced persons in the British Zone of occupation by taking a comparative approach and analysing conflicting identifications and state-individual relations. Drawing on the records of the International Tracing Service, refugee memoirs, DP publications distributed in the camps themselves, and personal petitions and correspondences, the author sheds light on the experiences of displaced persons and illustrates the difficulty of making clear-cut distinctions between forced and voluntary migration. Today, as in the post-war period, refugees’ access to social rights and welfare, settlement rights, and the possibility of family reunification, can all be determined by the same labels that were so fiercely contested after 1945. A dichotomy between so-called ‘economic’ and ‘political’ migration endures, and many claims to asylum are today rejected on the grounds of applicants not being formally recognized as ‘genuine’ refugees and recipients of aid. This book therefore adds to our growing understanding of the plight of refugees and the need to ensure access to justice for all through the ongoing building of an effective, accountable, and inclusive refugee regime. Imogen Bayley is a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow (2024 – 2026) at the European University Institute’s School of Transnational Governance. Prior to this, she has worked for research institutes in the UK, Poland, Germany, and Hungary. Europe History 1492-. 68968 Emigration and immigration Social aspects. World War, 1939-1945. 67816 Social history. Emigration and immigration Government policy. 70905 Europe, Central History. 77403 History of Modern Europe. 72822 Sociology of Migration. History of World War II and the Holocaust. 67818 Social History. Migration Policy. 70906 History of Germany and Central Europe. 77404 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031739859 Printed edition: 9783031739873 Printed edition: 9783031739880 Palgrave Studies in Migration History, 2946-4366 72249 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73986-6 ZDB-2-HTY ZDB-2-SXH 64828 64828