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6 - A Matter of Definition

Institutional Inclusion and Europe’s Postcolonial Migrants

from Part I - The Postwar and Decolonization Moment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 October 2023

Jan C. Jansen
Affiliation:
University of Duisburg-Essen
Simone Lässig
Affiliation:
German Historical Institute, Washington DC
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As European powers lost colonial wars and/or faced independence movements, millions of people living in or stationed in the colonies fled en masse, mostly to Europe. This essay offers an overview of these migrations of decolonization, considers their legacy, and offers points of comparison with contemporary refugee movements. Despite the migrants’ ethnic and racial diversity and the large numbers involved (about 5 to 7 million people), decolonization migrants are viewed today as having nearly completely integrated into their host societies. While these migrants share many features in common with contemporary refugees, a notable distinction is that of definition.Defined nearly from the start as full-fledged members of the host country they were migrating to, migrants of decolonization typically received advantages unmatched by most other migrants of the postwar period.

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Refugee Crises, 1945-2000
Political and Societal Responses in International Comparison
, pp. 124 - 154
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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