Refuge in the Land of Liberty A History of Asylum and Refugee Protection in France since the Revolution

by Burgess, Greg

• ISBN13: 9780230507753
• ISBN10: 0230507751
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780230582668
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book examines changing responses towards refugees in modern France. The study of the principle of asylum and the treatment of refugees from the French Revolution until the years immediately after the Second World War offers a broad sweep through French legal, intellectual, political and social history. Critical questions framed debates and policy: whether individuals had a natural human right to receive asylum, whether refugee policy was a matter for national goverment, or whether asylum was determined by international agreement.

Author Biography

GREG BURGESS is Lecturer in History, Deakin University, Australia. His research interests include the History of France in the nineteenth and early-twentieth century, and issues pertaining to responses to political refugees and foreign nationals from the French Revolution to the Second World War.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Refugees and Asylum	p. 1
Asylum and the French Revolution	p. 7
Exiles and Patriots	p. 11
Asylum, Empire, and Restoration	p. 36
Revolutionary Exiles and the July Monarchy, 1830-48	p. 47
The Limits of Tolerance	p. 51
The Practice of Asylum	p. 69
'A sentence passed in a shadow, by a hidden power'	p. 83
A Republican Tradition: Asylum, 1848-1920	p. 101
Asylum and the Mid-Century Crisis	p. 103
Socialist Revolutionaries, Mass Migration, War: 1870-1920	p. 123
'Around the corner from a hostile France, a France more amicable', 1920-39	p. 141
Migration and Asylum After the Great War	p. 145
The German Refugee Crisis, 1933-5	p. 165
Reform, Renewal, and the End of Asylum	p. 186
Conclusion: The Right of Asylum-A Site of Memory	p. 212
List of Abbreviations	p. 219
Notes	p. 220
Bibliography	p. 254
Index	p. 270
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