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Asylum between nations : refugees in a revolutionary era / Janet Polasky.

By: Polasky, Janet L [author.]Contributor(s): Yale University Press [publisher.]Publication details: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press [2023] Description: 312 pagesSubject(s): Political refugees -- Europe -- History -- 18th century | Political refugees -- Europe -- History -- 19th century | Cosmopolitanism -- Europe -- History -- 19th century | Cosmopolitanism -- Europe -- History -- 18th century | Exiles -- Europe -- History -- 18th century | Exiles -- Europe -- History -- 19th century | Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects | Asylum, Right of -- Europe -- History -- 18th century | Asylum, Right of -- Europe -- History -- 19th century | Europe -- History -- 18th century | Europe -- History -- 1789-1900 | EuropeGenre/Form: History.LOC classification: HV640.4.E85. | P65
Contents:
Introduction Asylum between Nations -- 1. Aristocratic Émigrés and Luxurious Temptations in Hamburg and Altona -- 2. "A Temple Always Open to Peace": Poets and Ports -- 3. French Connections: "For Commerce and Humanity" -- 4. "The Right Papers" in a World of Nations -- 5. Stateless in Brussels: Transforming the World -- 6. Alliances: "Democrats from the World Over" -- 7. "The Spectre of Communism" and a Revolution "on Our Doorstep" -- 8. "Not Foreigners, but Democrats": Refugees and a Revolution Averted
9. The Forty-Eighters in America: The Promise of "an Asylum for Mankind" -- Epilogue "A Destabilized Citizenship" for Refugees -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: Why some of the most vulnerable communities in Europe, from independent cities to new monarchies, welcomed refugees during the Age of Revolutions and prospered "Janet Polasky unearths an unappreciated history of the experience of asylum in Europe and the United States since the Age of the Democratic Revolutions. Facing squarely the destruction of asylum in our own time, she ends with a stunningly optimistic vision of a path toward its reconstruction."--Linda K. Kerber, author of No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies Driven from their homelands, refugees from ancient times to the present have sought asylum in worlds turned upside down. Theirs is an age-old story. So too are the solutions to their plight. In the wake of the American and French Revolutions, thousands of men and women took to the roads and waterways on both sides of the Atlantic--refugees in search of their inalienable rights. Although larger nations fortified their borders and circumscribed citizenship, two port cities, German Hamburg and Danish Altona, opened their doors, as did the federated Swiss cantons and the newly independent Belgian monarchy. The refugees thrived and the societies that harbored them prospered. The United States followed, not only welcoming waves of immigrants in the mid-nineteenth century but offering them citizenship as well. In this remarkable story of the first modern refugee crisis, historian Janet Polasky shows how open doors can be a viable alternative to the building of border walls.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction Asylum between Nations -- 1. Aristocratic Émigrés and Luxurious Temptations in Hamburg and Altona -- 2. "A Temple Always Open to Peace": Poets and Ports -- 3. French Connections: "For Commerce and Humanity" -- 4. "The Right Papers" in a World of Nations -- 5. Stateless in Brussels: Transforming the World -- 6. Alliances: "Democrats from the World Over" -- 7. "The Spectre of Communism" and a Revolution "on Our Doorstep" -- 8. "Not Foreigners, but Democrats": Refugees and a Revolution Averted

9. The Forty-Eighters in America: The Promise of "an Asylum for Mankind" -- Epilogue "A Destabilized Citizenship" for Refugees -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Why some of the most vulnerable communities in Europe, from independent cities to new monarchies, welcomed refugees during the Age of Revolutions and prospered "Janet Polasky unearths an unappreciated history of the experience of asylum in Europe and the United States since the Age of the Democratic Revolutions. Facing squarely the destruction of asylum in our own time, she ends with a stunningly optimistic vision of a path toward its reconstruction."--Linda K. Kerber, author of No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies Driven from their homelands, refugees from ancient times to the present have sought asylum in worlds turned upside down. Theirs is an age-old story. So too are the solutions to their plight. In the wake of the American and French Revolutions, thousands of men and women took to the roads and waterways on both sides of the Atlantic--refugees in search of their inalienable rights. Although larger nations fortified their borders and circumscribed citizenship, two port cities, German Hamburg and Danish Altona, opened their doors, as did the federated Swiss cantons and the newly independent Belgian monarchy. The refugees thrived and the societies that harbored them prospered. The United States followed, not only welcoming waves of immigrants in the mid-nineteenth century but offering them citizenship as well. In this remarkable story of the first modern refugee crisis, historian Janet Polasky shows how open doors can be a viable alternative to the building of border walls.