How did overseas Europeans participate in the two world warsâ effort? Which were the tensions around mobilization? How did the war affect their identity and their descendants? What were their mobilizationâs effects on the relationship with the adopted homelands? These closely intertwined issues connect to the central argument of the book: war exerted a crucial influence on the configuration â and reconfiguration â of those European communitiesâ national or ethnic identities and made evident their transnational nature. Through different case studies, this volume approached the multi-faceted, complex, and fluid nature of immigrant collective identities under the pressures and challenges of total wars.
This book is primarily aimed at academics, postgraduate students and libraries, and the areas of Latin American history, migration studies, war history and global history.