Refugees, Relief, and Resettlement: new Gale Primary Source Archive

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The Library is pleased to announce the acquisition of the two-part 'Refugees, Relief and Resettlement' primary sources collection from Gale. 
It brings together 900,000 digitised pages that recount the causes, effects and responses to refugee crises before, during and shortly after World War II. It uses a range of sources including legal briefs, refugee reports, pamphlets and letters. 

Refugees, Relief and Resettlement' comprises of two collections addressing the refugee crises across different periods.
The archive contains 590,000-plus pages of pamphlets, ephemera, government documents, relief organization publications, and refugee reports spanning 1935 to 1950.  
The database draws on six major collections from the UK National Archives, the British Library, the U.S. National Archives, and the World Jewish Relief. 
It details  the refugee experience from within Europe, also including Burma, the Middle East and Thailand, covering voluntary evacuations, displaced persons camps, forced laborers, and more.

This collection of 360,000 digitised pages chronicles the causes of refugee crises following World War II, from the onset of the Cold War to the decolonization of, and rise of independence movements within, the nations of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.

It explores government files, refugee agency reports, and other materials that explain the challenges faced by refugees as well as the government and agency operations that sought to provide some form of relief through resettlement or repatriation. It covers the period of 1947-1979. 

Learn more about these resources here.

'Refugees, Relief and Resettlement is available via the Library Catalogue



Collection Development / Forbairt Bailiúchán

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