Ruth Balint is Associate Professor of History at University of New South Wales. She is the author of Troubled Waters and coauthor of Smuggled.

• Introduction: Leaving Europe1. Telling the Truth in Postwar Europe2. "There Has Been a Lot of Dirt Here": Denunciations and Accusations3. Housewives and Opportunists: Categorizing DP Women and Wives4. Unaccompanied Children and Unfit Mothers5. The Children Left Behind6. "The Top-Heavy Slow-Turning Wheel": From Europe to Australia7. Address Unknown: Tracing the DisappearedConclusion: History off the Leash

Ruth Balint's immensely readable and highly original book Destination Elsewhere adds to [the] scholarship. What makes her contribution particularly valuable is her concern not so much with the IRO or the reception of DPs in Australia and elsewhere, but with the DP experience.(Inside Story) Destination Elsewhere is clearly a major work, based on exceptional research that humanises and gives agency to post-war refugees.(History Australia) This book is essential reading for those interested in the history of postwar humanitarianism, twentieth-century state building, migration, and refugees. It also provides a superb roadmap for future studies on refugee relocations to different countries, as well as the role of other organizations in these humanitarian practices.(H-net)

Ruth Balint is Associate Professor of History at University of New South Wales. She is the author of Troubled Waters and coauthor of Smuggled.

• Introduction: Leaving Europe1. Telling the Truth in Postwar Europe2. "There Has Been a Lot of Dirt Here": Denunciations and Accusations3. Housewives and Opportunists: Categorizing DP Women and Wives4. Unaccompanied Children and Unfit Mothers5. The Children Left Behind6. "The Top-Heavy Slow-Turning Wheel": From Europe to Australia7. Address Unknown: Tracing the DisappearedConclusion: History off the Leash

Ruth Balint's immensely readable and highly original book Destination Elsewhere adds to [the] scholarship. What makes her contribution particularly valuable is her concern not so much with the IRO or the reception of DPs in Australia and elsewhere, but with the DP experience.(Inside Story) Destination Elsewhere is clearly a major work, based on exceptional research that humanises and gives agency to post-war refugees.(History Australia) This book is essential reading for those interested in the history of postwar humanitarianism, twentieth-century state building, migration, and refugees. It also provides a superb roadmap for future studies on refugee relocations to different countries, as well as the role of other organizations in these humanitarian practices.(H-net)

Ruth Balint is Associate Professor of History at University of New South Wales. She is the author of Troubled Waters and coauthor of Smuggled.

• Introduction: Leaving Europe1. Telling the Truth in Postwar Europe2. "There Has Been a Lot of Dirt Here": Denunciations and Accusations3. Housewives and Opportunists: Categorizing DP Women and Wives4. Unaccompanied Children and Unfit Mothers5. The Children Left Behind6. "The Top-Heavy Slow-Turning Wheel": From Europe to Australia7. Address Unknown: Tracing the DisappearedConclusion: History off the Leash

Ruth Balint's immensely readable and highly original book Destination Elsewhere adds to [the] scholarship. What makes her contribution particularly valuable is her concern not so much with the IRO or the reception of DPs in Australia and elsewhere, but with the DP experience.(Inside Story) Destination Elsewhere is clearly a major work, based on exceptional research that humanises and gives agency to post-war refugees.(History Australia) This book is essential reading for those interested in the history of postwar humanitarianism, twentieth-century state building, migration, and refugees. It also provides a superb roadmap for future studies on refugee relocations to different countries, as well as the role of other organizations in these humanitarian practices.(H-net)