Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815–1949

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This volume explores the forced migration of people, defined briefly as when individuals or groups are compelled to leave their home countries due to various (though predominantly political) factors, to the UK and the British Empire from 1815 to 1949. With a uniquely international and inclusive scope, this volume is a welcome contribution to our understanding of forced migrations over this 135-year period. It aims to kickstart future work on this subject and provide the basis for a more truly global understanding of refugees, forced migrations, and border controls in modern history.

Contributors are: Yianni Cartledge, Vesna Curlic, Milosz K. Cybowski, Rosaria Franco, Jade Hastings, Jemima Jarman, Jeffrey Jones, Thomas C. Jones, Chana Revell Kotzin, Michał Adam Palacz, Leslie Rogne Schumacher, Evan Smith, Andrekos Varnava, and Andrew Williams.
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Front Matter
Preliminary Material
Copyright Page
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Part 1 Introduction
Chapter 1 Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815–1949
Part 2 The Metropole
Chapter 2 ‘Eternal Poles’: the Rise and Decline of British Sympathy towards the Polish Refugees in the First Half of the 19th Century
Chapter 3 ‘Grateful to the Lord’: a British Evangelical Response to the 19th Century Migration of Jews from Eastern Europe
Chapter 4 Asylum and Historical Memory in Victorian Britain
Chapter 5 ‘The Centre of Human Woe and Pathos’: the British Port Environment and the Right to Asylum, 1905–1914
Chapter 6 My Brother’s Keeper? Church of England Responses to Jewish Refugees from Europe, 1933–1939
Chapter 7 Liverpool’s Chinese Community: the Second World War, Exile, and Repatriation
Chapter 8 Polish Medical Refugees in Britain during and Immediately after the Second World War
Part 3 British Imperial Experiences
Chapter 9 Refugees from the Imperial Nation: the Poyais Case and Belize, 1823
Chapter 10 Seeking securo asilo: Malta’s Italian Refugee Crisis, 1815–1848
Chapter 11 Chiot Refugees in the British Empire after the Chios Massacre (1822)
Chapter 12 ‘The Most Useless Class of Emigrants’: Female Irish Famine Orphans in Colonial Australia, 1848–1850
Chapter 13 Refugees from China to Hong Kong during the Treaty Ports Era
Chapter 14 Controlling Colonial Borders: the Politics and Imperialism of White Russian Refugee Settlement in British Cyprus
Chapter 15 Refugee Campaigns in the Communist Press in Britain and Australia in the 1930s
Back Matter
Index
Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, is Professor of Imperial History at Flinders University and Honorary Professor at De Montfort University. He has published 4 monographs, 17 edited collections, and over 70 papers. He is the new Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History.

Yianni Cartledge is a lecturer in Greek studies (culture) at Flinders University. His research interests include migration and the migrant experience, diaspora studies, Mediterranean histories (particularly those of the British and Ottoman Empires), and the history of modern Greece.

Evan Smith is a Visiting Fellow at the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Humanities, University of Adelaide. He has published widely on the history of social movements, political extremism, national security, and borders.
"A high-quality volume composed of thoroughly researched essays which brings together a range of case studies providing a pioneering perspective on the study of migrants in Britain and its empire integrating national with global migration." – Panikos Panayi, De Montfort University, UK
Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Part 1
Introduction
1 Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815–1949
  Andrekos Varnava, Yianni Cartledge and Evan Smith

Part 2
The Metropole
2 ‘Eternal Poles’: The Rise and Decline of British Sympathy towards the Polish Refugees in the First Half of the 19th Century
  Milosz K. Cybowski

3 ‘Grateful to the Lord’: A British Evangelical Response to the 19th Century Migration of Jews from Eastern Europe
  Jemima Jarman

4 Asylum and Historical Memory in Victorian Britain
  Thomas C. Jones

5 ‘The Centre of Human Woe and Pathos’: The British Port Environment and the Right to Asylum, 1905–1914
  Vesna Curlic

6 My Brother’s Keeper? Church of England Responses to Jewish Refugees from Europe, 1933–1939
  Chana Revell Kotzin

7 Liverpool’s Chinese Community: The Second World War, Exile, and Repatriation
  Andrew Williams

8 Polish Medical Refugees in Britain during and Immediately after the Second World War
  Michał Adam Palacz

9 Refugees from the Imperial Nation: The Poyais Case and Belize, 1823
  Jeffrey Jones

Part 3
British Imperial Experiences
10 Seeking securo asilo: Malta’s Italian Refugee Crisis, 1815–1848
  Leslie Rogne Schumacher

11 Chiot Refugees in the British Empire after the Chios Massacre (1822)
  Yianni Cartledge

12 ‘The Most Useless Class of Emigrants’: Female Irish Famine Orphans in Colonial Australia, 1848–1850
  Jade Hastings

13 Refugees from China to Hong Kong during the Treaty Ports Era
  Rosaria Franco

14 Controlling Colonial Borders: The Politics and Imperialism of White Russian Refugee Settlement in British Cyprus
  Andrekos Varnava

15 Refugee Campaigns in the Communist Press in Britain and Australia in the 1930s
  Evan Smith

Index

This volume will appeal to academics, undergraduate and postgraduates, especially Research Higher Degree candidates, and anyone interested in migration studies (especially histories), and British imperial and colonies histories.
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Brill
Language:
English
Pages:
xvi, 432pp.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004689145

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