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1 - Understanding Forced Migration

from Part I - Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2024

Volha Charnysh
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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This chapter introduces cases motivating the book and presents a three-step argument about the effects of forced migration on societal cooperation, state capacity, and economic development. It reviews evidence from post-WWII displacement in Poland and West Germany, discusses the applicability of the findings to other cases, and highlights the main contributions of the book.

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How post-WWII Population Transfers Remade Europe
, pp. 3 - 30
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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