The unsettling of Europe: how migration reshaped a continent [First edition] 9780465093618, 0465093612

An acclaimed historian examines postwar migration's fundamental role in shaping modern Europe Migration is perhaps

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English Pages xiii, 548 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations, maps; 25 cm Year 2019

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The unsettling of Europe: how migration reshaped a continent [First edition]
 9780465093618, 0465093612

Table of contents :
Introduction: A European retrospective --
Violent peacetime, Cold War rivalry, rebuilding Europe, 1945-1956. Forced migration in Europe: changing places --
Migrants in limbo: displaced persons in postwar Europe --
People adrift: expellees and refugees --
Rebuilding Western Europe: adventures in migration --
Building communism in Eastern Europe --
Decolonisation, guest workers, and economic growth, 1956-1973. Migrants of decolonisation --
French revolution: decolonisation, migration, modernisation --
Guest workers in West Germany: migration, miracles and missing out --
Unsettling the European periphery: migration to the UK --
Migrants under communism --
European odysseys, 1973-1989. A dual challenge: recession and asylum in Europe --
Unsettling Southern Europe --
"Melting pot" or "salad bowl"?: public opinion and government policy --
Migrants in Western Europe: living in a cold climate --
Reordering Europe and managing migration, 1989-2008. The end of communism: picking up the pieces --
Reunification, migration and German society --
Together in disharmony: the death of Yugoslavia --
Managing migration and asylum in the new European Union --
Privileged lives, precarious lives --
Whither Europe, whither migrants? 2008 to the present. Europe, nation-states and migrants since 2008 --
Another Europe: borders, routes, migrant lives --
Belief, bodies and behaviour --
Owning the past: migration, memory, museum --
Arab Spring, European winter.

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