Before the Convention : The Spanish Civil War and Challenges for Research on Refugee History
Rodrigo, Javier 1977- (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Història Moderna i Contemporània)
Alegre Lorenz, David 1988-

Date:	2022
Abstract:	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.
Grants:	European Commission. Horizon 2020 870939 Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades PGC2018-097724-BI00
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Displacement ; Refugees ; Exile ; Spanish Civil War/post-war period ; Refugee Convention
Published in:	Refugee Survey Quarterly, Vol. 41 (2022) , p. 196-217, ISSN 1471-695X

DOI: 10.1093/rsq/hdac005

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