Unsettled: Refugee Camps and the Making of Multicultural Britain

by Jordanna Bailkin

Book Overview

Today, no one really thinks of Britain as a land of camps. Camps seem to happen 'elsewhere', from Greece, to Palestine, to the global South. Yet over the course of the twentieth century, dozens of British refugee camps housed hundreds of thousands of Belgians, Jews, Basques, Poles, Hungarians, Anglo-Egyptians, Ugandan Asians, and Vietnamese. But refugee camps in Britain were never only for refugees. Refugees shared space with Britons who had been...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198859538
• ISBN13: 9780198859536
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"