Refugees and the Promise of Asylum in Postwar France, 1945–1995

Greg Burgess teaches modern and contemporary History at Deakin University, Australia. His research specializes in the history of refugee movements and political responses to them in nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe, with particular attention to France. His previous publications include Refugee in the Land of Liberty: France and its Refugees, from the Revolution to the End of Asylum, 1787-1939 (Palgrave, 2008), and The League of Nations and the Refugees from Nazi Germany: James G. McDonald and Hitler’s Victims (2016).

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Promise of Asylum.- Chapter 2. The Post-War Convergence - Population, Immigration, Refugees, 1944-1945.- Chapter 3. Refugees, Deportees and Repatriates after 1944.- Chapter 4. The 'Neo Refugees'' of Spain and the East.- Chapter 5. The Refugee Convention and a Law on Asylum, 1951-1952.- Chapter 6. The OFPRA and its refugees, 1952-1960.- Chapter 7. The Crossroads of the 1960s. A Retreat for Humanitarian Asylum.- Chapter 8. Exiles, Repatriates, and Refuges without the Name.- Chapter 9. Asylum in Crisis.