When Boat People were Resettled, 1975–1983

A Comparative History of European and Israeli Responses to the South-East Asian Refugee Crisis

Becky Taylor, Karen Akoka, Marcel Berlinghoff, Shira Havkin (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

X, 239 Seiten

2021 | 1st ed. 2021
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-64223-5 (ISBN)

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This book traces the reception and resettlement of Vietnamese, Cambodians and Laotians in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Israel during the 'boat people' crisis of 1975-79. These years saw hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the emergence of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and political instability across south-east Asia. Using a comparative historical approach, the authors demonstrate the multiple ways in which refugees were contested, accepted, received and resettled across different national contexts. This episode is held up today as an example of European generosity. Yet this book illustrates how the reception of boat people in Western Europe and Israel was shaped by the Cold War, and by specific national preoccupations over international prestige, immigration, labour supply and the place of foreign-born strangers in their increasingly diverse societies. While the post-2015 refugee crisis in Europe has often been construed as a new challenge requiring an unprecedented coordinated international response, this book shows the longer history of such dilemmas.
Chapter 4 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

lt;b>Becky Taylor is Reader in Modern History at the University of East Anglia, UK.
Karen Akoka is Associate Professor in Political Science at Paris Nanterre University, France.

Marcel Berlinghoff is a senior researcher and member of the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), Osnabrueck University, Germany
Shira Havkin is an affiliated researcher at Sciences-Po CERI, France, and a fellow of the Institut Convergences Migrations.

1. Introduction.- 2. France: 'Boat people' brought by plane - Karen Akoka.- 3. Germany: 'Refugie-surprise': The unlikely reception of Indochinese boat-people in Germany - Marcel Berlinghoff.- 4. Britain: 'Our most foreign refugees': refugees from Vietnam in Britain - Becky Taylor.- 5. The Netherlands: 'Boat people' as changemakers in the Dutch refugee system - Julia Kleinschmidt.- 6. Israel: Asylum without refugee status: Israel's reception of Vietnamese exiles.- 7. Bibliography.

Erscheinungsdatum	23.06.2021
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in Migration History
Zusatzinfo	X, 239 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	457 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Schlagworte	Cambodia • Diversity • France • Germany • international response • Israel • Laos • Netherlands • Refugee crisis • resettlement policy • UK • UN Refugee Agency • Vietnam
ISBN-10	3-030-64223-2 / 3030642232
ISBN-13	978-3-030-64223-5 / 9783030642235
Zustand	Neuware