This book is a study of statelessness in the period of the Second World War. It breaks new ground by focusing not on Europe, but on the Asian and Pacific theatres of the conflict. This perspective enables us to go beyond Hannah Arendt's classic account of statelessness in her Origins of Totalitarianism. To her, statelessness was the product of a failed European nation-state system. We find a very different story when we examine the history of stateless people, many of them Jews, fleeing to Asia from Europe. In Asia, we see that being stateless was not a uniform experience, but a variety of possibilities reflecting the political structure of the states and cities in which refugees found shelter. We find too that stateless people managed to enter the political realm long before they reached the threshold of citizenship.
| ISBN: | 9781526183026 |
| Publication date: | 27th May 2025 |
| Author: | Kolleen M Guy, J M Winter |
| Publisher: | Manchester University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 388 pages |
| Series: | Cultural History of Modern War |
| Genres: |
Refugees and political asylum Migration, immigration and emigration Social and cultural history Asian history |
This book is a study of statelessness in the period of the Second World War. It breaks new ground by focusing not on Europe, but on the Asian and Pacific theatres of the conflict. This perspective enables us to go beyond Hannah Arendt's classic account of statelessness in her Origins of Totalitarianism. To her, statelessness was the product of a failed European nation-state system. We find a very different story when we examine the history of stateless people, many of them Jews, fleeing to Asia from Europe. In Asia, we see that being stateless was not a uniform experience, but a variety of possibilities reflecting the political structure of the states and cities in which refugees found shelter. We find too that stateless people managed to enter the political realm long before they reached the threshold of citizenship.
Statelessness After Arendt features in the following genres: Refugees and political asylum, Migration, immigration and emigration, Social and cultural history, Asian history
Statelessness After Arendt is available in Hardback
Statelessness After Arendt was written by Kolleen M Guy, J M Winter and published by Manchester University Press
Statelessness After Arendt has 388 pages
Yes it is part of Cultural History of Modern War series
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