Postwar Migration Policy and the Displaced of the British Zon... - 9783031739880

Postwar Migration Policy and the Displaced of the British Zone in Germany, 19451951Fighting for a Future\nAuthor(s): Imogen Bayley\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Palgrave Macmillan\nISBN-13: 9783031739880, 978-3031739880\nSynopsis\n?This book examines the experiences of refugees who populated the Displaced Persons (DP) camps in the British Zone of Allied-occupied Germany after the Second World War. With a specific focus on Polish and Jewish communities, it explores the interaction between migrationpolicyand the migrationstrategyof refugees - or in other words the relationship between DP policy and individual choices, and how these evolved over time. The book aims to harmonize often contradictory images of displaced persons in the British Zone of occupation by taking a comparative approach and analysing conflicting identifications andstate-individual [url] on the records of the International Tracing Service, refugee memoirs,.