TY  - BOOK
TI  - Refugees in twentieth-century Britain: a history 
SN  - 1316946290
AV  - HV640.4. G7T395
KW  - Refugees
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Protectionism vs internationalism: refugees from Nazism -- Post-war settlement: the Hungarians -- Rivers of blood: the Ugandan Asians -- marketisation and multiculturalism: refugees from Vietnam -- A new world order: conclusion
N2  - "This tightly focused history explores the interplay between the arrival of four cohorts of refugees and some of the central themes of British twentieth-century history. It demonstrates how refugees' experiences, rather than being marginal, were emblematic of some of the principal developments in British society. Based on rich archival sources, this book explores how refugees from Nazism; Hungarians in 1956; Ugandan Asians expelled by Idi Amin; and Vietnamese 'boat people were received and settled in Britain. In doing so it reveals changing ideas of Britishness and the place of 'outsiders' in modern Britain. It also explores:"--
ER  -