Immigrants & Minorities

Paul Merker, the GDR, and the politics of memory: 'purging cosmopolitanism'? Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Matthew Stibbe reviews Alexander D. Brown’’s book Paul Merkers The GDR, and the politics of memory: ‘purging cosmopolitanism’?

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We are proud to announce that South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories, a landmark educational website on the histories of South Asians in Britain, is now live!

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The panel discussion will also include contributors to a pioneering special issue on internment published by the journal in 1992. Details will follow soon on how to register for the event.

There will be a launch event for both parts of the double special issue at the Wiener Library, London, on Monday 6 October 2025, exact time tbc. The guest editors, the editor in chief, and several contributors will be there.

Immigrants & Minorities Wartime Internment as a Global Practice and Experience, 1914–1945. Part II: The Production and Transfer of Knowledge. Guest Editors: Arnd Bauerkämper, Dina Gusejnova and Marina Pérez de Arcos. Volume 43, Issue 2 of Immigrants & Minorities

Part II of our latest special issue is now available! The issue focuses on Wartime Internment as a Global Practice and Experience, 1914-1945. It was guest edited by the wonderful Arnd Bauerkämper, Dina Gusejnova and Marina Pérez de Arcos.
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Undesirable British East African Asians. Nationality, Statelessness, and Refugeehood after Empire In 1972, upon expulsion from Uganda by Idi Amin, diasporic Asians, who had settled in East Africa during colonial times, underwent a second stage of global dispersal. Many of them managed to resett...

This article by @saracoos.bsky.social on the expulsion, resettlement and statelessness of Ugandan Asians in 1970s was part of a special issue of @imm-min-journal.bsky.social that I co-edited with @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social and Marinella Marmo in 2022.

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Conflicts in theory and method: Collingwood, Bersu, and the transformation of archaeological knowledge in twentieth-century British internment camps This article explores the transformation of archaeological knowledge in Britain, analysing the relationship between the German archaeologist Gerhard Besu (1889–1964) and the British philosopher and...

Read our new Open Access article by Harold Mytum on ‘Conflicts in theory and method: Collingwood, Bersu, and the transformation of archaeological knowledge in twentieth-century British internment camps’.

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Migration at the end of empire: time and the politics of departure between Italy and Egypt Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2025)

New book review. Alexander Kitroeff reviews Joseph John Viscose’s Migration at the end of empire: time and the politics of departure between Italy and Egypt (Cambridge, 2024).

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The Hidden Victims: civilian casualties of the two world wars Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Read our new book review by Tammy Proctor! Proctor reviews Cormac Ó Gráda’s The Hidden Victims: civilian casualties of the two world wars (Princeton, 2024).
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Understanding post-war migrant voyages to Australia and the case of the Corsica, 1946–52: ‘hell trip on a floating slum’ This article historically contextualises the conditions on migrant voyages to Australia. It starts with a historical sketch of various traumatic voyages from 1946 to 1951, before more deeply explor...

Recently published open access article by Andrekos Varnava entitled Understanding post-war migrant voyages to Australia and the case of the Corsica, 1946–52: ‘hell trip on a floating slum’
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Hidden presences: the role of next-of-kin in shaping the context and experience of POW captivity This article explores the role next-of-kin played in framing discussion over the treatment of military prisoners during the era of the two world wars. Prisoners’ next-of-kin came to assume an influ...

Recently published open access article by Neville Wylie on ‘Hidden presences: the role of next-of-kin in shaping the context and experience of POW captivity’
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Recently published article by Timothy S Forest entitled ‘Contempt, Sympathy and Romance: the ‘Othering’ of the Hebridean Scot in British eyes during the Crofters’ War, 1882–1892’
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Petitioning, Scandal, and Conspiracy in Early Colonial Calcutta: Rethinking the South Asian Context for the Impeachment of Warren Hastings Corruption scandals have long been viewed as crucial to the making of the British Empire in India in the late eighteenth century. But histories of these scandals have mainly focused on metropolitan...

Hot off the press! See our recent article 'Petitioning, Scandal, and Conspiracy in Early Colonial Calcutta: Rethinking the South Asian Context for the Impeachment of Warren Hastings' by Robert Travers: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

‘We were there’: how black nurses used friendship to navigate hierarchy within the NHS from 1960 to 1983 To fill post-war labour shortages in the National Health Service (NHS), the British government recruited thousands of nurses from the Commonwealth. This article examines the experiences of Black nu...

One of our published articles written by Stephanie Abrego Diez, Revival Afolabi, Isabelle Anderson, Shreya Joshi, Hanah Lee and William Prince explores ‘how black nurses used friendship to navigate hierarchy within the NHS from 1960 to 1983’
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A paralegal institution: tribunals and the place of law in the framework of internment during the Second World War This article examines the emergence of tribunals as a system for legalising the internment of ‘enemy aliens’ in Britain and the United States during the Second World War. Reconstructing how these e...

Recently published open access article by Dina Gusejnova and Kim Wünschmann entitled ‘A paralegal institution: tribunals and the place of law in the framework of internment during the Second World War’
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Sorting, reporting and ways to use registration: Habsburg Austria from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century In late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Habsburg Austria, regulations permitted residents free movement, while at the same time the government strived for ubiquitous monitoring and surveill...

New Open Access Article written by Sigrid Wadauer on 'Sorting, reporting and ways to use registration: Habsburg Austria from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century'
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The Scottish State and European Migrants, 1885-1939 Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2025)

New Open Access Review Article by Stefan Manz on 'The Scottish State and European Migrants, 1885-1939'
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British culture after empire Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2024)

NEW REVIEW: Professor Stuart Ward review's 'British culture after empire' by Josh Doble, Liam Liburd and Emma Parker www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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‘The loneliest of the war’s victims’: wives and families of Italian emigrant soldiers in the First World War Women’s experiences during the First World War have received considerable scholarly attention but the fates of emigrant women have remained understudied. This article focuses on Italian emigrant wo...

NEW ARTICLE: You can read now @selenadaly.bsky.social's brilliant article 'The loneliest of the war’s victims’: wives and families of Italian emigrant soldiers in the First World War' here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

An image which gives details of the free online training session, 'Researching migration and refugee narratives' taking place on the 20th March 2025 from 14.00-15.30 GMT - to attend one can sign up here: https://www.history.ac.uk/events/researching-migration-and-refugee-narratives

Interested in researching migration and refugee narratives? This online research training session will introduce participants to a wealth of resources and is free to attend.

🗓 20 March 2025
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Register today via: https://buff.ly/3ZgvjdC

Really pleased that this article is out - a chapter that I had to cut from the book for space reasons but that is such an important part of the Italian emigrant war experience. Covers US, Sth America, Europe and North Africa.

British culture after empire Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2024)

NEW REVIEW: Professor Stuart Ward review's 'British culture after empire' by Josh Doble, Liam Liburd and Emma Parker www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@manchesterup.bsky.social

‘The loneliest of the war’s victims’: wives and families of Italian emigrant soldiers in the First World War Women’s experiences during the First World War have received considerable scholarly attention but the fates of emigrant women have remained understudied. This article focuses on Italian emigrant wo...

NEW ARTICLE: You can read now @selenadaly.bsky.social's brilliant article 'The loneliest of the war’s victims’: wives and families of Italian emigrant soldiers in the First World War' here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction a book by Sadiah Qureshi. Anyone alive today is among a tiny fraction of the once living: over 90 percent of species that ever lived are now extinct. How did we come to think of ourselves as survivors in a world where species ...

I’ve finally finished my book on extinction! If you’re interested in reading how ideas of race, empire, and extinction have shaped our world and left important legacies for thinking about just conservation and the future of our planet, preorder here.

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For those interested in Cypriot history and politics.
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Migration History Seminar 2024-25 The Migration History Seminar presents exciting new research, wide ranging in geography and chronology and in how migration is defined.

Migration History Seminar series starts again tomorrow @5pm with Dr Eithne Nightingale who will discuss her new book

Child Migrant Voices in Modern Britain - Oral Histories 1930s to the Present Day

All sessions online. All welcome. More details & registration www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/migration-...

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