%0 Journal Article
%T Between War and Peace: A Brief Comparison of Polish Refugees’ Administrations in East Africa and Lebanon
%A Murkociński, Mikołaj
%J Prace Historyczne
%V 2019
%R 10.4467/20844069PH.19.032.10386
%N Numer 146 (3)
%P 565-583
%K Refugees, World War II, UNRRA, IRO, Poland, Lebanon, Africa
%@ 0083-4351
%D 2019
%U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/prace-historyczne/artykul/between-war-and-peace-a-brief-comparison-of-polish-refugees-administrations-in-east-africa-and-lebanon
%X 
	In 1942, Polish civilians started to fl ock into Iran after two years of deportation in the USSR. Many of them found refuge in diff erent territories in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, where the representatives of the Polish government-in-exile were faced with a huge task of administering thousands of refugees, mostly women and children. The aim of the  present article is to highlight the  impact of diff erent refugee policies on the displaced persons’ everyday life through a comparative analysis of two diff erent Polish refugee centers in East African territories and Lebanon. Factors such as the local political context, social composition, as well as the level of autonomy granted to refugees were also crucial in the immediate post-war period, when the Polish refugees had to choose between repatriation and emigration.