The Disentanglement of Populations: Migration, Expulsion and Displacement in postwar Europe, 1944-49

An examination of population movements, both forced and voluntary, within the broader context of Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War, in both Western and Eastern Europe. The authors bring to life problems of war and post-war chaos, and assess lasting social, political and demographic consequences.

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; J.Reinisch PART I: EXPLAINING POSTWAR DISPLACEMENT Trajectories of Population Displacement in the Aftermaths of Two World Wars; P.Gatrell Reconstructing the Nation-State: Population Transfer in East-Central Europe, 1944-48; M.Frank PART II: EXPULSIONS AND FORCED TRANSFERS Forced Migration of German Populations During and After the Second World War: History and Memory; R.Schulze The Exodus of Italians from Istria and Dalmatia 1945-56; G.Corni Evacuation Versus Repatriation: the Polish-Ukrainian Population Exchange, 1944-1946; C.Gousseff PART III: NATIONAL AND ETHNIC PROJECTS 'National Refugees', Displaced Persons and the Reconstruction of Italy: the Case of Trieste; P.Ballinger Return, Displacement and Revenge: Majorities and Minorities in Osnabrück at the End of the Second World War; P.Panayi Stateless Citizens of Israel: Jewish DPs and Zionism in Postwar Germany; A.Patt PART IV: LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT German Refugees and Labour in the Soviet Zone of Germany, 1945-1949; J.Reinisch From Displaced Persons to Labourers: Allied Employment Policies in Postwar West Germany; S.Salvatici British Migration Policy and Displaced Persons in Europe; J-D.Steinert PART V: CHILDREN The Return of Evacuated Children to Leningrad, 1944-46; E.White Relocating Children During the Greek Civil War, 1946-1949: State Strategies and Propaganda; L.Hassiotis Epilogue: A Disorder of Peoples: the Uncertain Ground of Reconstruction in 1945; G.Eley Bibliography Index

About the Author :
PAMELA BALLINGER Associate Professor of Anthropology, Bowdoin College, USA GUSTAVO CORNI Professor of Contemporary History, University of Trento, Italy GEOFF ELEY Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor of Contemporary History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA MATTHEW FRANK Lecturer in International History, University of Leeds, UK PETER GATRELL Professor of Economic History, University of Manchester, UK CATHERINE GOUSSEFF Historian at the Centre National de la Recherche scientifique (CNRS), Paris, France LOUKIANOS HASSIOTIS Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary History, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece PANIKOS PANAYI Professor of European History, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK AVINOAM J. PATT Philip D. Feltman Professor of Modern Jewish History, University of Hartford, USA SILVIA SALVATICI Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Teramo, Italy RAINER SCHULZE Head of Department of History, University of Essex, UK JOHANNES-DIETER STEINERT Professor of Modern European History and Migration Studies, University of Wolverhampton, UK