The routes to exile : France and the Spanish Civil War refugees, 1939-2009 /

As they trudged over the Pyrenees, the Spanish republicans became one of the most iconoclastic groups of refugees to have sought refuge in twentieth-century France. This book explores the array of opportunities, constraints, choices and motivations that characterised their lives. Using a wide range...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Soo, Scott (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2013]
Series:Studies in modern French history.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1469948
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Coming to terms with the Spanish republican exile in France
  • Unravelling rights and identities : the exodus of 1939
  • Reception, internment and repatriation, 1939-40
  • Organisations, networks and identities, 1939-40
  • Ambiguities at work : refugees and the French war economy, 1939-40
  • Work, surveillance, refusal and revolt in Vichy and German-occupied France, 1940-44
  • Mobilisation, commemoration and return, 1944-55
  • Moving memories, 1970-2009
  • Conclusion : Trajectories and legacies.