Pamela Ballinger is Professor of History and Fred Cuny Chair in the History of Human Rights at the University of Michigan. She is author of History in Exile and La Memoria dell'Esilio.

Pamela Ballinger has authored a densely documented, conceptually strong, and beautifully written book that compellingly proves the point made by Peter Gatrell and others: Putting the histories of migration center-stage opens up new and productive vistas onto the nations and, indeed, the world refugees made.(H-Africa) While Ballinger's book hopefully encourages more research on this inner-Italian topic, it is already indispensable for the study of twentieth-century internationalism, the postwar refugee regime, and the beginnings of European decolonization. It brilliantly locates Italian decolonization in the context of the emerging postwar international order that redrew borders, redefined citizenship, and handled the global displaced-persons crisis.(American Historical Review) In her recent book, The World Refugees Made, Pamela Ballinger offers a pathbreaking study of how the process of decolonization shaped and affected Italy after 1945. The methodological approaches and arguments developed in The World Refugees Made will certainly inspire a new generation of studies on postwar Europe and refugees.(Contemporanea) The World Refugees Made is a complex and fascinating work that demonstrates how necessary it is to analyze Italy's post–World War II reconstruction as an international and colonial/postcolonial history. It will be informative and intriguing to students and nonspecialists, and challenging and provocative to scholars of its relevant fields.(Journal of Modern History)

• Introduction: Mobile Histories1. Empire as Prelude2. Wartime Repatriations and the Beginnings of Decolonization3. Italy's Long Decolonization in the Era of Intergovernmentalism4. Displaced Persons and the Borders of Citizenship5. Reclaiming Facism, Housing the NationConclusion: "We Will Return"

Pamela Ballinger is Professor of History and Fred Cuny Chair in the History of Human Rights at the University of Michigan. She is author of History in Exile and La Memoria dell'Esilio.

Pamela Ballinger has authored a densely documented, conceptually strong, and beautifully written book that compellingly proves the point made by Peter Gatrell and others: Putting the histories of migration center-stage opens up new and productive vistas onto the nations and, indeed, the world refugees made.(H-Africa) While Ballinger's book hopefully encourages more research on this inner-Italian topic, it is already indispensable for the study of twentieth-century internationalism, the postwar refugee regime, and the beginnings of European decolonization. It brilliantly locates Italian decolonization in the context of the emerging postwar international order that redrew borders, redefined citizenship, and handled the global displaced-persons crisis.(American Historical Review) In her recent book, The World Refugees Made, Pamela Ballinger offers a pathbreaking study of how the process of decolonization shaped and affected Italy after 1945. The methodological approaches and arguments developed in The World Refugees Made will certainly inspire a new generation of studies on postwar Europe and refugees.(Contemporanea) The World Refugees Made is a complex and fascinating work that demonstrates how necessary it is to analyze Italy's post–World War II reconstruction as an international and colonial/postcolonial history. It will be informative and intriguing to students and nonspecialists, and challenging and provocative to scholars of its relevant fields.(Journal of Modern History)

• Introduction: Mobile Histories1. Empire as Prelude2. Wartime Repatriations and the Beginnings of Decolonization3. Italy's Long Decolonization in the Era of Intergovernmentalism4. Displaced Persons and the Borders of Citizenship5. Reclaiming Facism, Housing the NationConclusion: "We Will Return"

Pamela Ballinger is Professor of History and Fred Cuny Chair in the History of Human Rights at the University of Michigan. She is author of History in Exile and La Memoria dell'Esilio.

Pamela Ballinger has authored a densely documented, conceptually strong, and beautifully written book that compellingly proves the point made by Peter Gatrell and others: Putting the histories of migration center-stage opens up new and productive vistas onto the nations and, indeed, the world refugees made.(H-Africa) While Ballinger's book hopefully encourages more research on this inner-Italian topic, it is already indispensable for the study of twentieth-century internationalism, the postwar refugee regime, and the beginnings of European decolonization. It brilliantly locates Italian decolonization in the context of the emerging postwar international order that redrew borders, redefined citizenship, and handled the global displaced-persons crisis.(American Historical Review) In her recent book, The World Refugees Made, Pamela Ballinger offers a pathbreaking study of how the process of decolonization shaped and affected Italy after 1945. The methodological approaches and arguments developed in The World Refugees Made will certainly inspire a new generation of studies on postwar Europe and refugees.(Contemporanea) The World Refugees Made is a complex and fascinating work that demonstrates how necessary it is to analyze Italy's post–World War II reconstruction as an international and colonial/postcolonial history. It will be informative and intriguing to students and nonspecialists, and challenging and provocative to scholars of its relevant fields.(Journal of Modern History)

• Introduction: Mobile Histories1. Empire as Prelude2. Wartime Repatriations and the Beginnings of Decolonization3. Italy's Long Decolonization in the Era of Intergovernmentalism4. Displaced Persons and the Borders of Citizenship5. Reclaiming Facism, Housing the NationConclusion: "We Will Return"