| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.2

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Henriette von Holleuffer. Zwischen Fremde und Fremde: Displaced Persons in Australien, den USA und Kanada 1946–1952. (Studien zur historischen Migrationsforschung, number 9.) Osnabrück: Universitätsverlag Rasch. 2001. Pp. 416.

This study aims at a depiction of Australian, Canadian, and U.S. immigration policies in the context of the displaced persons (DP) problem between 1946 and 1952. In the design of the narrative chapters of the book, Henriette von Holleuffer follows a familiar pattern: one subchapter on Australia, one on the United States, one on Canada, and one summing up the comparative aspects of the emergence of the problem of DPs, the decisions for national DP programs, the settlement of the DPs in the respective countries, and the integration of the DPs in their new homes. 1

In her introduction, the author asks a number of questions concerning the connection between immigration policy and national identity without even attempting to answer them. That is the main weakness of this work: it formulates good, important questions but then fails to answer them. . . .

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