Unsettled
Unsettled
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10.1093/oso/9780198814214.001.0001
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2018
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Jordanna Bailkin
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作者：
Jordanna Bailkin
今天，没有人认为英国是一个营地的土地。相反，难民营似乎发生在“其他地方”，从希腊到巴勒斯坦再到全球南部。然而，在整个世纪，数十个英国难民营收容了数十万埃塞俄比亚人、犹太人、巴斯克人、波兰人、匈牙利人、盎格鲁-埃及人、乌干达亚洲人和越南人。英国的“难民营”从来都不是只为难民服务的。难民与因战争和贫困而流离失所的英国人以及数千名公务员和一群难以驾驭的志愿者分享空间。《不安定》探讨了这些营地如何塑造了今天的多元文化英国。它们产生了独特的亲密关系和摩擦，揭示了传统上被分开的个人-“公民”和“移民”，以及来自不同国家和冲突的难民人口-之间的亲密关系。随着世界难民危机再次给欧洲带来大规模难民营的挑战，《不安》从一个自由民主国家最近的过去中发出了警告。通过对前难民营居民和工作人员的采访以及档案研究，《不安》传达了难民营生动的日常历史，见证了出生和死亡，爱情和暴力冲突，罢工和抗议，喜剧和悲剧。他们的故事就像今天的难民危机一样，是一个以不可预测的方式发挥作用的复杂意图。这本书讲给所有谁有兴趣在困境中的营地，和全球使用营地在我们当今世界。
Today, no one thinks of Britain as a land of camps. Instead, camps seem to happen “elsewhere,” from Greece to Palestine to the global South. Yet over the course of the twentieth century, dozens of British refugee camps housed hundreds of thousands of Belgians, Jews, Basques, Poles, Hungarians, Anglo-Egyptians, Ugandan Asians, and Vietnamese. “Refugee camps” in Britain were never only for refugees. Refugees shared space with Britons who had been displaced by war and poverty, as well as thousands of civil servants and a fractious mix of volunteers. Unsettled explores how these camps have shaped today’s multicultural Britain. They generated unique intimacies and frictions, illuminating the closeness of individuals that have traditionally been kept separate—“citizens” and “migrants,” but also refugee populations from diverse countries and conflicts. As the world’s refugee crisis once again brings to Europe the challenges of mass encampment, Unsettled offers warnings from a liberal democracy’s recent past. Through anecdotes from interviews with former camp residents and workers and archival research, Unsettled conveys the vivid, everyday history of refugee camps, which witnessed births and deaths, love affairs and violent conflicts, strikes and protests, comedy and tragedy. Their story—like that of today’s refugee crisis—is one of complicated intentions that played out in unpredictable ways. This book speaks to all who are interested in the plight of the encamped, and the global uses of encampment in our present world.