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Uprooted - Volha Charnysh

Uprooted

How post-WWII Population Transfers Remade Europe

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Buch | Softcover
342 Seiten
2024
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-44197-1 (ISBN)
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This book explores how mass displacement affects social and economic development, showing that the resettlement of millions of Germans and Poles after WWII produced stronger states and more prosperous societies. It advances research on ethnicity, migration, and state-building and provides lessons for policymakers dealing with forced displacement.
Each year, millions of people are uprooted from their homes by wars, repression, natural disasters, and climate change. In Uprooted, Volha Charnysh presents a fresh perspective on the developmental consequences of mass displacement, arguing that accommodating the displaced population can strengthen receiving states and benefit local economies. Drawing on extensive research on post-WWII Poland and West Germany, Charnysh shows that the rupture of social ties and increased cultural diversity in affected communities not only decreased social cohesion, but also shored up the demand for state-provided resources, which facilitated the accumulation of state capacity. Over time, areas that received a larger and more diverse influx of migrants achieved higher levels of entrepreneurship, education, and income. With its rich insights and compelling evidence, Uprooted challenges common assumptions about the costs of forced displacement and cultural diversity and proposes a novel mechanism linking wars to state-building.

Volha Charnysh is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her work has been published in journals including the American Political Science Review, Annual Review of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, and World Politics. She holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Part I. Introduction: 1. Understanding forced migration; 2. Europe's zero hour: population transfers in the aftermath of WWII; Part II. Social Cohesion and Contributions to Public Goods: 3. Cooperation in homogeneous and heterogeneous polish villages; 4. Forced migration and public goods contributions in west Germany; Part III. State Building in the Wake of Mass Displacement: 5. State-building in the polish wild west; 6. Expellees and the State in West Germany; Part IV. Long-run Economic Consequences of Uprooting: 7. Economic implications of cultural diversity in western Poland; 8. Economic legacies of forced migration in west Germany; 9. Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10 1-009-44197-3 / 1009441973
ISBN-13 978-1-009-44197-1 / 9781009441971
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