The Routes to Exile : France and the Spanish Civil War Refugees, 1939-2009.

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- Map 1 French départements -- Map 2 South-west France -- Introduction: Coming to terms with the Spanish republican exile in France -- Searching for the Spanish republican exile in France -- Reflections on exile -- On the 'routes' to an exile -- Notes -- Part I: The onset of exile -- 1: Unravelling rights and identities: the exodus of 1939 -- Refugee legislation and the Third Republic -- The Popular Front -- Echoes of the conflict in Spain -- Legislating for control, surveillance and exclusion -- The exodus in context -- Notes -- 2: Reception, internment and repatriation, 1939-40 -- Conditions on arrival: the camps -- Making sense of concentration-camp life -- Events in the Aquitaine -- Alternatives -- Repatriation -- Instructions and interpretations -- Anti-repatriation campaigns -- Making room for French refugees and collective protest -- Refugees' motivations for returning -- Notes -- 3: Organisations, networks and identities, 1939-40 -- Spanish republican organisations in exile -- Political-trade-union reorganisation in the concentration camps -- The exilic press -- Stories and values -- Celebrating the Republic(s)? -- Notes -- Part II: Working in from the margins -- 4: Ambiguities at work: refugees and the French war economy, 1939-40 -- Initiatives and alternatives -- Agricultural co-operatives -- The mass transformation of internees into workers -- Contrasting images: economic utility -- Contrasting images: national security -- Refugees' reactions -- Notes -- 5: Work, surveillance, refusal and revolt in Vichy and German-occupied France, 1940-44 -- Asylum, Vichy and the Spanish refugees -- Vichy's Foreign Labour Groups, 1940-41 -- Forced and voluntary labour in the Organisation Todt, 1940-42 -- Complicity at work: Otto and the Caserne Niel in Bordeaux.

The Occupied Zone: patterns of refusal, escape and subversion, 1941-42 -- The Unoccupied Zone: patterns of refusal, escape and subversion, 1941-42 -- Localities and the dynamics of forced recruitment, acceptance and rejection, 1943-44 -- Notes -- Part III: Aspirations of return, commemoration and home -- 6: Mobilisation, commemoration and return, 1944-55 -- From vanquished to victors -- Border politics -- Re-establishing Spanish republican legitimacy in France -- The politics of remembering -- The narratives and rituals of a proto-commemorative culture of exilic memory -- Shattered hopes -- Membership, work, welfare and solidarity -- Notes -- 7: Moving memories, 1970-2009 -- Memory, refugees and the French nation-state -- A commemorative culture of exile -- Consolidating a commemorative culture -- National and transnational contexts -- The personal and the social -- Making it home -- Notes -- Conclusion: trajectories and legacies -- Notes -- Appendix -- Note -- Bibliography -- Archival sources -- Internet sources -- Life-history sources -- Secondary sources -- Index.

Analyses the experiences of Spanish Republican refugees in France.

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