TY - JOUR
TI - Between War and Peace: A Brief Comparison of Polish Refugees’ Administrations in East Africa and Lebanon
AU - Murkociński, Mikołaj
TI - Between War and Peace: A Brief Comparison of Polish Refugees’ Administrations in East Africa and Lebanon
AB - 
	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.
VL - 2019
IS - Numer 146 (3)
PY - 2019
SN - 0083-4351
C1 - 2084-4069
SP - 565
EP - 583
DO - 10.4467/20844069PH.19.032.10386
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/prace-historyczne/artykul/between-war-and-peace-a-brief-comparison-of-polish-refugees-administrations-in-east-africa-and-lebanon
KW - Refugees
KW - World War II
KW - UNRRA
KW - IRO
KW - Poland
KW - Lebanon
KW - Africa