Refugees and the End of Empire

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvii

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Imperial Collapse and the Creation of Refugees in Twentieth-Century Europe

      • Panikos Panayi

      Pages 3-27

   3. The End of the European Colonial Empires and Forced Migration: Some Comparative Case Studies

      • Ian Talbot

      Pages 28-50

   4. The Tragedy of the Rimlands, Nation-State Formation and the Destruction of Imperial Peoples, 1912–48

      • Mark Levene

      Pages 51-78

3. Imperial Collapse in Europe and the Middle East

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79

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   2. Fantasies of Ethnic Unmixing: ‘Population Transfer’ and the End of Empire in Europe

      • Matthew Frank

      Pages 81-101

   3. Displacing Empire: Refugee Welfare, National Activism and State Legitimacy in Austria-Hungary in the First World War

      • Julie Thorpe

      Pages 102-126

   4. Integration without Assimilation in an Impermanent Landscape: Dispossession and Forced Migration in the Arab Middle East

      • Dawn Chatty

      Pages 127-151

   5. Armenian Women Refugees at the End of Empire: Strategies of Survival

      • Victoria Rowe

      Pages 152-172

4. The Consequences and Legacies of British Imperial Collapse

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173

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   2. ‘No Home but in Memory’: The Legacies of Colonial Rule in the Punjab

      • Pippa Virdee

      Pages 175-195

   3. Escape from Violence: The 1947 Partition of India and the Migration of Kashmiri Muslim Refugees

      • Ilyas Chattha

      Pages 196-218

   4. Dissident Memories: Exploring Bengali Refugee Narratives in the Andaman Islands

      • Uditi Sen

      Pages 219-244

   5. ‘Green for Come’: Moving to York as a Ugandan Asian Refugee

      • Emma Robertson

      Pages 245-267

5. Conclusion

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 269-269

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   2. Conclusions and Legacies

      • Panikos Panayi, Pippa Virdee

      Pages 271-291

6. Back Matter

   Pages 292-305

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An examination of the relationship between imperial collapse, the emergence of successor nationalism, the exclusion of ethnic groups and the refugee experience. Written by both established authorities and younger scholars, this book offers a unique international comparative approach to the study of refugees at the end of empire

• 20th century
• Amartya Sen
• bibliography
• Case Studies
• cohesion
• concept
• empire
• Europe
• experience
• Hungary
• landscape
• memory
• migration
• twentieth century
• William Henry Fox Talbot

• De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

  Panikos Panayi, Pippa Virdee

ILYAS CHATTHA Post-Doctoral Graduate, the University of Southampton, UK DAWN CHATTY University Reader in Anthropology and Forced Migration, the University of Oxford, UK MATTHEW FRANK Lecturer in International History, the University of Leeds, UK MARK LEVENE Reader in Comparative History, the University of Southampton, UK EMMA ROBERTSON Senior Lecturer in History, Sheffield Hallam University, UK VICTORIA ROWE Post-Doctoral graduate, University of Toronto, Canada UDITI SEN Max Weber Fellow, the European University Institute, Florence, Italy IAN TALBOT Head of History and Director of the Centre for Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, the University of Southampton, UK JULIE THORPE Research Lecturer in Humanities, the University of Western Sydney, Australia

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