Reparations for colonial soldiers in France, Great Britain and the United States. National movements and transnational dimensions.

这个比较研究项目的重点是最近在法国、英国和美国出现的要求殖民地退伍军人赔偿的运动的原因。尽管殖民地士兵对战争做出了重要贡献，但直到世纪之交，他们在很大程度上被欧洲和美国的二战历史学家和国家纪念政策所忽视。然而，最近来自塞内加尔、尼泊尔和菲律宾的退役士兵已成功地要求在前殖民地国家获得物质赔偿和（或）居住权。是什么因素促使类似的赔偿运动在不同的国家背景下同时出现？这些成功的赔偿运动的出现是否反映了普遍的全球规范和跨国行为体对民族国家政治进程的影响越来越大，或者这些运动是国家对殖民历史进行修正的结果，并牢固地植根于国家政治？该项目将通过三项国别比较研究和多种定性方法来解决这些问题。它的目的是呈现一种过去跨国政治的新模式。

This comparative research project focuses on the reasons for the recent emergence of movements in France, Great Britain and the United States demanding reparations for colonial veterans. Despite their important contribution to the war effort, until the turn of the century colonial soldiers were largely ignored by European and US historiographers of the SecondWorld War and by national remembrance policies. Recently, however, former soldiers from Senegal, Nepal and the Philippines have successfully claimed material compensations and/or residence rights in the former colonial states. What factors have encouraged the parallel emergence of similar reparation movements in differing national contexts? Does the emergence of these successful reparation movements reflect the increasing influence of universal global norms and transnational actors on the political process in the nation state, or are these movements the results of national revisions of the colonial past and firmly rooted in national politics? The project will address these questions with three comparative country studies and with a mix of qualitative methods. Its aim is to present a new model of transnational politics of the past.