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Hillier's Mediating Empire: An English Family in China, 1817-1927 (2020) explores the wider story of the multiple roles played by three generations of the Hillier-Medhurst family across more than a century in and around China. Although Britain has admitted fewer refugees than many other European countries, and far fewer than the major receiving nations that are situated much closer to the sources of refugees, the arrival and settlement of refugees has been a persistent focus of political and social argument during the twentieth century. The four case study chapters focus on refugees fleeing Nazism in the 1930s, on refugees from Hungary following the Soviet crushing of the Hungarian uprising of 1956, on Ugandan Asians who were expelled from Uganda by Idi Amin in 1972, and on refugees arriving in Britain from Vietnam during the decade after 1979. The four case study chapters also demonstrate the ways in which refugee migration to Britain was part of a global problem, with Britain often playing a rather minor role. [Extracted from the article]

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