Reluctant Hosts: Europe and Its Refugees

Danièle Joly, Robin Cohen

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9781032664576
• eBook ISBN:
  9781003827283
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Emigration & Immigration
• Index: Social Sciences

Now reissued with a new Preface by Robin Cohen and Danièle Joly this book was originally published in 1989 at a time when the reality of a single European Community had begun to materialize the comfortable belief that many European countries offered havens for those fleeing persecution. This belief was undermined as governments sought to cope with xenophobic and racist sentiments by their indigenous populations. This book, with contributions from social scientists, policy-makers and representatives from many European countries discusses the response of European governments to the increasing demands by asylum-seekers, refugees and exiles for admission, settlement and protection: issues which remain as pertinent today as when the book was originally published.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• The Contributors
• List of Acronyms
• Preface to Routledge Revivals Edition of Reluctant Hosts
• Preface
• 1 Introduction: The ‘New Refugees’ of Europe
• 2 Resettling Refugees: The Dutch Model
• 3 Refugees in Denmark
• 4 Refugees from South-East Asia in Spain: The Challenge of Hope
• 5 Refugees & National Policies: The Norwegian Case
• 6 Resettling Refugees from Vietnam in Birmingham
• 7 Refugees & Turkish Migrants in West Berlin
• 8 The Politics of Gender in Exile: Chileans in Glasgow
• 9 The Process of Transculturation: Exiles and Institutions in France
• 10 Employment as a Key to Settlement
• 11 The Detention of Asylum-Seekers in The UK
• 12 Asylum and Xenophobia in West Germany
• Reports and Documents