European and Latin American social scientists as refugees, Émigrés and return‐migrants

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Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

2019

301 Pages

ISBN 978-3-319-99264-8

European and Latin American social scientists as refugees, Émigrés and return‐migrants

Edited by

Ludger Pries, Pablo Yankelevich

During the 1930s, thousands of social scientists fled the Nazi regime or other totalitarian European regimes, mainly towards the Americas. The New School for Social Research (NSSR) in New York City and El Colegio de México (Colmex) in Mexico City both were built based on receiving exiled academics from Europe.

Comparing the founding and first twenty years of these organizations, this book offers a deeper understanding of the corresponding institutional contexts and impacts of emigrated, exiled and refugeed academics. Itanalyses the ambiguities of scientists' situations between emigration, return‐migration and transnational life projects and examines the corresponding dynamics of application, adaptation or amalgamation of (travelling) theories and methods these academics brought. Despite its institutional focus, it also deals with the broader context of forced migration of intellectuals and scientists in the second half of the last century in Europe and Latin America. In so doing, the book invites a deeper understanding of the challenges of forced migration for scholars in the 21st century.

Ludger Pries is Chair for Sociology at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.

Pablo Yankelevich is Professor at the Centro de Estudios Históricos of El Colegio de México, México.

Publication details

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-99265-5

Full citation:

Pries, L. , Yankelevich, P. (eds) (2019). European and Latin American social scientists as refugees, Émigrés and return‐migrants, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.

Table of Contents

Exile dynamics and impacts of European social scientists since the 1930s

Pries Ludger

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