Routes to Exile

France and the Spanish Civil War Refugees, 1939–2009

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

AvScott Soo

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As they trudged over the Pyrenees, the Spanish republicans became one of the most iconoclastic groups of refugees to have sought refuge in twentieth-century France. This book explores the array of opportunities, constraints, choices and motivations that characterised their lives. Using a wide range of empirical material, it presents a compelling case for rethinking exile in relation to refugees’ lived experiences and memory activities. The major historical events of the period are covered: the development of refugees’ rights and the ‘concentration’ camps of the Third Republic, the para-military labour formations of the Second World War, the dynamics shaping resistance activities, and the role of memory in the campaign to return to Spain. This study additionally analyses how these experiences have shaped homes and France’s memorial landscape, thereby offering an unparalleled exploration of the long-term effects of exile from the mass exodus of 1939 through to the seventieth-anniversary commemorations in 2009.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-01-03
Mått138 x 216 x 16 mm
Vikt358 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in Modern French and Francophone History
Antal sidor304
FörlagManchester University Press
ISBN9781526106841

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Introduction: Coming to terms with the Spanish republican exile in FrancePart I: The onset of exile1. Unravelling rights and identities: the exodus of 19392. Reception, internment and repatriation, 1939–403. Organisations, networks and identities, 1939–40Part II: Working in from the margins4. Ambiguities at work: refugees and the French war economy, 1939–405. Work, surveillance, refusal and revolt in Vichy and German-Occupied France, 1940–44Part III: Aspirations of return, commemoration and home6. Mobilisation, commemoration and return, 1944–557. Moving memories, 1970–2009Conclusion: Trajectories and legaciesAppendix 1Index

‘The quality of the historical research behind this publication is excellent. The narrative and arguments of the book are supported by detailed multi-archival research, interviews conducted during the 2000s, and a solid theoretical basis. […] Soo’s book can be praised for providing a highly readable and updated account in English on the history of Spanish republican exiles in France. Learning about the intricacies of the historical relationship between refugees and the modern nation-state is enlightening and—taking into account pressing concerns.’Ángel Alcalde, Independent Scholar, American Historical Review