This volume compares one of the largest instances of 'ethnic cleansing' - the German expellees from the East (Vertriebene) - with the most important case of decolonization migration - the French repatriates of Algeria (pieds-noirs).

About the Author
Manuel Borutta is Assistant Professor for Mediterranean history at the Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany. Among his recent publications are A Colonial Sea: The Mediterranean, 1798-1956 (2012, co-editor with Sakis Gekas), and Antikatholizismus: Deutschland und Italien im Zeitalter der europaischen Kulturkampfe (2011).

Jan C. Jansen is Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC, USA. He is the author of Erobern und Erinnern: Symbolpolitik, oeffentlicher Raum und franzoesischer Kolonialismus in Algerien 1830-1950 (2013) and co-author, with Jurgen Osterhammel, of Kolonialismus: Geschichte, Formen, Folgen (2012) and Dekolonisation: Das Ende der Imperien (2013).


Reviews

"This volume nonetheless constitutes a highly valuable collection of essays. It brings together many of the best-known experts on either subject and showcases the increasingly sophisticated, critical, and professional character of research in these fields in recent years." (Gaelle Fisher, H-Nationalism, H-Net Reviews, February2018)

"Articles are supremely researched, compelling, and enjoyable to read. ... This book provides a rich comparative study, the first of its kind, and certainly the first in English ... to address two lesser known populations of migrants who had and continue to have an important role in the national identities of France and Germany. Specialists in migration studies, diaspora and memory studies, as well as the unversed in the history of the Pieds-Noirs and Vertriebene, will find this book useful." (Amy L. Hubbell, EuropeNow Journal, europenowjournal.org, April, 2017)

Book Information
ISBN 9781349701506
Author Manuel Borutta
Format Paperback
Page Count 300
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan