Before the Convention

This article uses the tools of comparative history to address an important aspect of the Spanish Civil War: the fact that it generated waves of both internally displaced persons and cross-border refugees. Situating the conflict within the context of inter-war Europe, and particularly historical proc...

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Autores: Rodrigo, Javier|||0000-0002-7322-3462, Alegre Lorenz, David|||0000-0003-3214-1185
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:269412
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/269412
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1093/rsq/hdac005
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Displacement
Refugees
Exile
Spanish Civil War/post-war period
Refugee Convention
Descripción
Sumario:This article uses the tools of comparative history to address an important aspect of the Spanish Civil War: the fact that it generated waves of both internally displaced persons and cross-border refugees. Situating the conflict within the context of inter-war Europe, and particularly historical processes of deportation, forced migration, and exile, it analyses the challenges that the crisis of the war and subsequent post-war period in Spain introduced in the realm of humanitarian protection for displaced populations, and how existing international policies largely failed to protect those displaced by the conflict. Drawing on the Spanish Civil War example, the article shows how this kind of engagement with the history of refugees can produce insights that are useful for the broader body of scholarship on refugees, even for scholars who are not historians