Internment practices during the First and Second World Wars

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Introduction 9
4. Part I The polysemic function (character) of camps
5. Internment practices during the First and Second World Wars 27
6. Austrians in Trinidadian internment during the Second World War 47
7. Rehabilitation through labour 59
8. United Nations versus the Federal Agency 73
9. Can camp life create a common world? 87
10. Part II (Dis)empowering role of humanitarian intervention
11. Interventions by non-governmental organisations in state-run internment camps in France 97
12. Reconstructing Lives, Creating Citizens 111
13. Civilian internees, common criminals or dangerous communists? 125
14. Vicious circles of disempowerment 137
15. Enhancing agency and empowerment in refugee camps as total institutions – real or illusory? 147
16. Part III Strategies of coping and resistance
17. Undesirable asylum-seekers from National Socialist Germany in France 159
18. Singing and dancing for freedom of movement 177
19. Room(s) for children? 193
20. Part IV Pathways and transitions
21. Cycles of incarceration 207
22. Forced to flee and deemed suspect 229
23. Filling the gap 251
24. The life and afterlife of a twentieth-century French camp: Gurs 269
25. Hard time in the Big Easy 287
26. Annex
27. Index of Names 303
28. Short Biographies of contributors and editors 309