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Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie, Polska, ul. Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków

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Between War and Peace: A Brief Comparison of Polish Refugees’ Administrations in East Africa and Lebanon

Mikołaj Murkociński

Prace Historyczne, Numer 146 (3), 2019, s. 565 - 583

https://doi.org/10.4467/20844069PH.19.032.10386

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.

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To Govern a Community of Refugees: Some Insights into the History of the Polish Refugee Administration in East Africa, 1942–1945

Mikołaj Murkociński

Studia Migracyjne – Przegląd Polonijny, Nr 4 (170), 2018 (XLIV), s. 119 - 136

https://doi.org/10.4467/25444972SMPP.18.049.9451

The relocation of thousands of Polish refugees in East Africa in 1942 required a considerable effort to set up institutions capable of providing social and political care upon their arrival from Iran. The aim of this article is to give some insights into the tremendous task performed by the Polish officials to establish an effective administration in various British territories in Africa. Due to severe shortages of appropriate cadres the governmental agencies in refugee settlements and in Nairobi were understaff ed and plagued by conflicts. The erosion of credibility of the Polish Government-in-Exile after the Yalta conference led to the gradual marginalization by the British of the refugees’ institutions in Africa. Nevertheless, the Polish administration in Africa survived the end of the war in 1945 and its structures functioned until the departure of the majority of Poles between 1948 and 1950.

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