On the edges of Whiteness : Polish refugees in British colonial Africa during and after the Second World War /

"From 1942 to 1950, nearly twenty thousand Poles found refuge from the horrors of war-torn Europe in camps within Britain's African colonies, including Uganda, Tanganyika, Kenya and Northern and Southern Rhodesia. On the Edges of Whiteness tells their improbable story, tracing the manifold...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lingelbach, Jochen, 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, [2020].
Subjects:
1939-1945
Polish people > Africa, East.
Polish people > Africa, Southern.
World War, 1939-1945 > Deportations from Poland.
World War, 1939-1945 > Refugees > Poland.
World War, 1939-1945 > Refugees > Africa, East.
World War, 1939-1945 > Refugees > Africa, Southern.
Polonais > Afrique australe.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Déportés polonais.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Réfugiés > Pologne.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Réfugiés > Afrique australe.
HISTORY / Military / World War II.
Deportation
Polish people
Refugees
Africa, East
Poland
Southern Africa
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • How the Poles Came to Africa
  • The Postwar Refugee Regime and the Imperial Order of Things
  • Comparing Colonialisms in Africa and Poland
  • 'An Incredible Pool of Femininity': Gendering the Refugees
  • Polish Refugees as Part of Colonial Society
  • Conclusion. On the Edges of Whiteness

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