The Politics of Recognition: Jewish Refugees in Relief Policies and Human Rights Debates, 1945–1950

Cohen, G. Daniel

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“…Other examples, some going back to the production of the ‘modern’ refugees, also demonstrate this. As Daniel Cohen () points out, in the postwar period Jewish refugees were treated as ideal types of refugees and as such received preferential treatment. They were therefore also able to take advantage of their preferred status amongst various groups of postwar displaced persons to advance migration, political and nationalist agendas.…”

Section: Theorizing Refugementioning

confidence: 99%

Urbanizing Refuge: Interrogating Spaces of Displacement

Sanyal

2013

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Section: Theorizing Refugementioning

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Urbanizing Refuge: Interrogating Spaces of Displacement

Sanyal

2013

Int J Urban Regional Res

126

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“…For example, in the post‐war period, the Jewish refugees were treated as ideal types of refugees and as such received preferential treatment. They were therefore also able to take advantage of their preferred status amongst various post‐war displaced persons to advance migration, political and nationalist agendas (Cohen 2006a, b).…”

Section: The Camp As a Bio‐political Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

Refugees and the City: An Urban Discussion

Sanyal¹

2012

Geography Compass

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There has been resurgence in interest in both popular media and academic research on refugees as subjects of incarceration in camps and as a growing population in cities. While the urbanization of refugees is not new, it has become a growing concern for policy‐makers, aid agencies and scholars as the numbers of refugees moving to cities have accelerated. There has been debate over the urbanity of camps due to protracted refugee crises and increasingly, there is recognition that despite the efforts of host governments, self‐ settlement of refugees is taking place in cities. The two issues therefore make the city an important framework to interrogate the spaces of refugees. This paper attempts to show the complexity of refugee politics and socializing in camps and in cities by showing a variety of refugee spaces and practices in different parts of the world and using urban debates‐particularly urban informality to draw links between refugee spaces and cities. The aim is to debunk universalizing myths about refugees and refugee camps as subjects and spaces of bare life and bio‐politics alone. Instead it draws parallels between the urban poor and refugees to offer a perspective on the close and complex relationship cities, refugee spaces and their residents have with each other.

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“…Cohen argues that ‗Jews were not merely perceived as ‗war victims' deserving of humanitarian relief but also as unique targets of racial and political persecution warranting historical recognition; unlike other post-war victims, Jewish refugees were acknowledged as paradigmatic victims entitled to specific migratory and ‗resettlement' claims'. 28 These conditions became propaedeutic for the promoting of international recognition that ultimately favoured the nationalization of the Jews into one single people and entitled to self-determination. 29 In this sense, the Jews were able to move to camps where the majority of the population was Jewish and this helped to nationalize their status, as well as socio-political situation, in what became known as She'erith Hapletah (the Surviving Remnant).…”

Section: The Jewish People After the End Of World War IImentioning

confidence: 99%

“…28 These conditions became propaedeutic for the promoting of international recognition that ultimately favoured the nationalization of the Jews into one single people and entitled to self-determination. 29 In this sense, the Jews were able to move to camps where the majority of the population was Jewish and this helped to nationalize their status, as well as socio-political situation, in what became known as She'erith Hapletah (the Surviving Remnant). These large communities included 50,000 to 60,000 Jews who shared the experience of the Holocaust together with another 200,000 -250,000 Jewish ‗infiltrees' coming from Eastern Europe, especially Polish ones exiled by the Soviet Union during the war and repatriated in 1945 -1946.…”

Section: The Jewish People After the End Of World War IImentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These large communities included 50,000 to 60,000 Jews who shared the experience of the Holocaust together with another 200,000 -250,000 Jewish ‗infiltrees' coming from Eastern Europe, especially Polish ones exiled by the Soviet Union during the war and repatriated in 1945 -1946. 30 Cohen argues that ‗the acceptance of these Jewish refugees coming from Eastern Europe in the American and British areas under what the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) calls ‗‗internal displacement'', was not due to their displaced status or their country of origins, but rather as an acknowledged national entity with precise migratory claims' which were added to the already vibrant Zionist politics in the camps. 31 Cohen's analysis brought him to argue that the nationalization of the Jewish people which took place in Germany, and that spread across the camps and became a pivotal movement towards the Zionist ideology, was caused by the creation of large mono-ethnic communities that included Jewish people of multiple backgrounds and nationalities who saw in the Zionist movement the only chance to escape their ineluctable destiny of ‗being Jewish'.…”

Section: The Jewish People After the End Of World War IImentioning

confidence: 99%

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What Was the Impact of Zionism on Displaced Jewish Refugees in Germany in the Aftermath of the Second World War?

Bruno¹

2018

JPAG

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This paper explores the birth of the state of Israel with particular emphasis on the role of the Zionist ideology. Zionism as an ideology can be seen not only as a singular ideological view, but as a confluence of multiple ideas that trace back to the 19th century and even earlier to the diaspora of the Jewish people. The final product of the Zionist idea is the state of Israel. Great emphasis in this paper Is given to the role of Zionism after the end of World War II, which saw the mass murder of over 6 million Jewish. Zionism posed the dilemma to the Jewish people in the following terms: the creation of a state where Jewish people could have been represented as the majority with their own rules and legislation and the complete assimilation within other countries. In other words, Zionism aimed to give the Jewish people a nationalistic identity and remains a strong factor that influenced the Jewish people within the DP camps in the aftermath of the Second World conflict. The paper begins with the analysis of Zionism as an ideology from the 19th century onward and the conditions of the Jewish people in the aftermath of World War II. These two points are then analysed to demonstrate two main points. The first is the resiliency and adaptability of the Zionist ideology as the only way forward for the Jewish people and second, the status of the Jewish people as “victims” and this idea gave them the freedom to approach the creation of a new society with a general “benevolence” from the international community.

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The Politics of Recognition: Jewish Refugees in Relief Policies and Human Rights Debates, 1945–1950

Cited by 30 publications

References 14 publications

Urbanizing Refuge: Interrogating Spaces of Displacement

Urbanizing Refuge: Interrogating Spaces of Displacement

Refugees and the City: An Urban Discussion

What Was the Impact of Zionism on Displaced Jewish Refugees in Germany in the Aftermath of the Second World War?

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