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Intro -- Author's Note -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- Introducing the Displaced -- Literature Overview and Contributions -- History and Migration: Different Levels of Analysis -- 'Forced' vs 'Voluntary' Migration -- Analysis at the 'Macro' Level of Policy -- Analysis at the 'Meso' Level of Group-Specific Differences -- Analysis at the 'Micro' Level of the Individual -- Sources -- Structure -- 2 Repatriation After 'Liberation' -- 'Liberation': The Establishment of the Camps and the 'Spontaneous Return' of Poles -- Soviet DPs and a Backdrop of Forced Repatriation -- Poles, Pressure and Coercion in the Camps -- The Exceptional Non-repatriation of Jews -- 'Infiltrees': Events in the East and the Collective Identities of the Camp System -- Repatriation and Different Structures of Belonging -- 3 Screening the 'Genuine' Postwar Refugee -- Screening Shifts to Determine Who Remains -- Screening in the International Tracing Service (ITS) -- Screening Under the IRO: Examining Different Sets of Criteria -- Anti-communist Credentials in Ascendancy -- Finding DP Agency in the ITS -- The Challenges of Defining the DPs -- 4 The Worker's Way Out: British Labour Recruitment Schemes -- Recruiting Aliens: From 'Balt Cygnet' to Westward Ho! -- The 'Suitable' European Volunteer Worker -- Rival Schemes: French and Belgian Recruitment -- A Hybrid: Labour Migration or Refugee Resettlement? -- Self-Fashioning and Resistance -- Labour Schemes as Inevitably Short-Lived -- 5 The Push for Palestine -- DP Zionism: Consensus, Debate and Perspectives -- Britain, the Jewish DP 'Problem' and the Palestine 'Question' -- Welfare Workers' Perspectives -- 'Post-catastrophe' Zionism in Unzer Sztyme -- A 'Wait-and-See' Approach in the ITS -- For a Multi-layered Presentation of DP Zionism -- 6 The New World.

The Domestic Lobby, the DP Act and the Resettlement 'Pipeline' -- Eyes and Hopes on America -- The Ideal Candidate in the ITS -- Oh Canada -- Waltzing Matilda -- Anywhere But Here? -- 7 While We Wait -- Gender in the Camps: Marriage and the DP 'Baby Boom' -- Children as Migratory Agents -- DP Labour and Employment in the Zone -- Looking ahead: Skills Training, Education and DP Students -- When Priorities Clash -- 8 The Gates Open -- Push and Pull to Israel -- Pioneers vs Refugees -- Amending the American DP Act -- Organization-Led Resettlement -- Improbable Returns -- The Infrastructures of Movement -- 9 The Hard Core 'Residue' and Absorption in Germany -- Anticipating a 'Residue' -- Reasoned Justifications for Remaining -- Adaptive Preferences Over Time -- Degrees of Establishment and Personal Intimacy vis-à-vis Germany -- 'Elderly' DPs -- 'And So It Was Over' -- 10 Conclusion: Fighting for a Future -- A Constant Negotiation -- Displacement Then and Now -- Bibliography -- Index.