1. Remaking Asylum in Post-War France, 1944–52.
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Burgess, Greg
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REFUGEE policy , *RIGHT of asylum , *GOVERNMENT policy on political refugees , *POLITICAL refugees -- History , *IMMIGRATION policy , *REPUBLICANISM , *TWENTIETH century ,FRENCH politics & government ,EMIGRATION & immigration in France - Abstract
This article examines the steps by which asylum and the rights of refugees were remade in France after the Liberation. The legacy of the pre-1940 period, in which exclusive practices such as legislative prohibitions on refugees, expulsion and internment were the norm, resulted in the need, after the war, to restate and reaffirm republican principles. The article will examine the ideological assumptions that lay behind the postwar asylum debate, and address why it was necessary to place asylum so firmly within republican political culture. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2014
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