Statelessness after Arendt

Introduction

Part 1: Perspectives on statelessness

Section 1: An introductory dialogue: Statelessness and the refugee predicament

1. Jay Winter, Statelessness and the burden of our times

2. Peter Gatrell, A Response

Section 2: Telling the tale of refugees and the stateless

3. Peter Balakian, Some Poems: Statelessness and refugees

4. Mary Behrens, RUN

5. Eva de Jong-Duldig, Nobody's children: Families, internees and refugees from Singapore to Australia during the Second World War

6. Joy Damousi, Family memories of war and displacement: primary sources for the making of an historian

Part 2: Refugees and the stateless in Asia and the Pacific in the global Second World War

Section 3: Varieties of refugee life and statelessness in China

7. Rana Mitter, War, memory, the state and statelessness in China

8. Meredith Oyen, The International politics of refugee settlement in Shanghai, 1937-56

9. Sheila Fitzpatrick, Statelessness and its (sometime) benefits: The case of Russians in Harbin in the 1930s and 1940s

10. Peter Gatrell, 'I have been a refugee all my life': Refugees in China in the era of the Second World War - Evidence from UNHCR Individual Case Files

Section 4: Refugees and the stateless in Shanghai and beyond

11. Qian Zhu, 'The right to the city': The Nantao safe zone and humanitarian internationalism in Shanghai, 1932-40

12. Gao Bei, Chinese nationalists, Japanese occupiers and the European Jewish refugees in Shanghai, 1938-41

13. Sara Halpern, Statelessness, national sovereignty, and German and Austrian refugees in China during and after the Treaty Port era

14. Jay Winter, A moveable feast: The Odyssey of the Mir yeshiva

15. Kolleen Guy, Agents of empathy

16. Seumas Spark, Jewish emigr©s to Australia in the period of the Second World War

Section 5: The End of Cosmopolitan Shanghai

17. Zach Fredman, The Rise and fall of U.S. military power in China

18. Christian Henriot, From Paradise to Hell: The downfall of French interests in Shanghai

19. Robert Bickers, Out of Shanghai

20. Kolleen Guy and Jay Winter, Conclusion: Statelessness in the global Second World War