ABOUT BOOK

The twentieth century has been described (e.g., Piskorski 2015 ) as a century ~of displacement. While globally the comparative scale of involuntary population ~movement may not have diff ered signifi cantly from earlier centuries, its ~perception has changed radically, leading in the early twenty- fi rst century to ~the dramatic resurgence of xenophobic populism across Europe and beyond ~(see Kaya 2017 ; De Cesari and Kaya 2019). Throughout the ‘refugee crisis’ of ~the 2010s, the German government’s moderate policy towards new migrants ~was widely criticised. The ideological foundation for that policy was, arguably, ~the country’s experience of integrating millions of ethnic German expellees ~and refugees from Central and Eastern Europe in the aftermath of the Second ~World War.