Immigrants & Minorities

Thanks also to three of our contributors: Anne Buckley, Dr Mathis Gronau, Professor Stefan Manz.

Our editor Matthew Stibbe is pictured with guest editors Professor Arnd Bauerkämper, Dr Dina Gusejnova, Dr Marina Perez de Arcos.

On Monday we launched our latest special issue. Thanks to @wienerlibrary.bsky.social, Barbara Warnock, and to our panel contributors Professor Heather Jones, Dr Andre Keil, and Dr Rachel Pistol.

Forced migration: exiles and refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815-1949 Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Tanja Bueltmann reviews ‘Forced migration: exiles and refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815-1949’
edited by Andrekos Varnava, Yianni Cartledge et al.

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‘Steady’ swedes, ‘dirty Dagos’ and the ‘national danger’ of foreign workers in British shipping, 1850–1914 Foreign sailors were a presence in the British mercantile marine from the sixteenth century, and yet during the second half of the nineteenth century their presence became controversial. They were ...

New Open Access article by Martin Wilcox entitled: ‘Steady’ swedes, ‘dirty Dagos’ and the ‘national danger’ of foreign workers in British shipping, 1850–1914

Read via the link:
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Forced migration: exiles and refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815-1949 Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Check out Tanja Bueltmann's review of our recent volume on Forced Migration with @degruyterbrill.bsky.social in @imm-min-journal.bsky.social - doi.org/10.1080/0261...

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The following event at the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social Holocaust Library on internment in the two world wars may be of interest to our members. All are welcome but tickets must be booked - there is limited capacity so book soon!

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Please join us on the 6th October @3-4.30pm for the Special edition launch of 'Trading Liberty for Security? 35 Years of Research into Internment in the Two World Wars'.
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Register via the link below:
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This Autumn, we're publishing a whole load of exciting new additions to our flagship series, Studies in Imperialism ⬇️

The third is out today! 'Containing decolonisation: British imperialism and the politics of race in late colonial Burma' by Matthew Bowser

Explore the series: tinyurl.com/26wmryxu

Jewish refugees and the British nursing profession: a gendered opportunity Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Rachel Pistol reviews Jane Brooks’ Jewish refugees and the British nursing profession: a gendered opportunity

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British Bangladeshi Muslims in the East End: the changing landscape of dress and language Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2025)

New book review! Humayun Ansari reviews Fatima Rajina’s British Bangladeshi Muslims in the East End: the changing landscape of dress and language

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Giving this a final plug as the deadline is 15 August.

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!

Visit southasianbritain.org

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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.
www.tandfonline.com/toc/fimm20/4...

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’
Check it out via the link!
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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’
Have a read via the link below!
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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’
Check it out via the link!
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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’
Check it out below!
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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’
Check it out via the link below!
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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'
Check it out via the link below!
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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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Hi Miguel, we'd love to be added!