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Refugee Children and the Emotional Cost of Internationalism in Interwar Britain
Journal of British Studies ( IF 0.764 ) Pub Date : 2021-01-26 , DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2020.189
Sandra Trudgen Dawson

This article explores the complexity surrounding the politics and emotions of internationalism and humanitarian work in interwar Britain by using as a lens the public and official responses to assisting “refugee children.” Analysis of British responses to refugee emergencies after the First World War, the Spanish Civil War, and the Nazi persecution of Jews and other minorities suggests that attitudes shifted dramatically between the arrival of Basque child refugees in May 1937 and the Kindertransports in late 1938. Charities and refugee committees, many of them faith-based, had to negotiate the spaces between nation, ideology, and emotion to successfully raise funds for refugees. All appeals were to “save” children, and yet the responses and the amounts raised were vastly different. Campaigns to support almost four thousand Basque children proved politically polarizing and bureaucratic. In contrast, the immediate and widespread response to fund-raising to bring ten thousand children to Britain in 1938 suggests that a significant change in attitudes and fund-raising practices had taken place in a short time. Unlike the political divisions that hampered support for the Basque children, Britons from all walks of life appeared by 1938 to embrace the emotional and financial cost of internationalism in a way they had not only a year before.

中文翻译:

战间英国的难民儿童和国际主义的情感成本

本文以公众和官方对援助“难民儿童”的反应为视角,探讨了两次世界大战期间英国围绕国际主义和人道主义工作的政治和情感的复杂性。对第一次世界大战、西班牙内战以及纳粹对犹太人和其他少数民族的迫害后英国对难民紧急情况的反应的分析表明,在 1937 年 5 月巴斯克儿童难民的到来和 1938 年末的 Kindertransports 之间,态度发生了巨大变化。难民委员会,其中许多是基于信仰的,必须就国家、意识形态和情感之间的空间进行谈判,才能成功地为难民筹集资金。所有呼吁都是为了“拯救”儿童,但反应和筹集的金额却大不相同。支持近四千巴斯克儿童的运动被证明在政治上两极分化和官僚主义。相比之下,1938 年为将 10000 名儿童带到英国而筹款的直接而广泛的反应表明,态度和筹款做法在短时间内发生了重大变化。与阻碍对巴斯克儿童支持的政治分歧不同,来自各行各业的英国人在 1938 年之前似乎以一种他们一年前所没有的方式接受了国际主义的情感和经济代价。
更新日期:2021-01-26
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