Frank Caestecker read history at the University of Ghent and worked as an eligibility officer for UNHCR and the Belgian asylum institution. He completed his graduate studies at the European University Institute in Florence and is now affiliated to the University of Ghent and the University College Ghent, focusing his research on alien policy in the nineteenth- and twentieth centuries and the influence this policy has on migration dynamics.

"The noteworthy strengths of this work are its transnational and comparative perspective and its nuanced analysis of the disparate practices of refugee policy below the level of discourse and official decision-making. [It] provides a thoughtfully critical examination of the controls used by officials in western Europe to manage the migration from the Third Reich and to withstand the pressures on their frontiers during the refugee crisis of 1938/39."  ·  German History“This is a thoroughly well-researched and organized book. “  ·  American Historical Review

• List of Tables and GraphsList of AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionFrank Caestecker and Bob MoorePART I: NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ANALYSES OF POLICIES TOWARDS THE REFUGEES FROM NAZI GERMANYChapter 1. International Refugee Policy and Jewish Immigration under the Shadow of National SocialismSusanne HeimChapter 2. The Danish Immigration Authorities and the Issue of RassenschandeLone RünitzChapter 3. Unwilling Refuge: France and the Dilemma of Illegal Immigration, 1933–1939Vicki CaronChapter 4. Dwindling Options: Seeking Asylum in Switzerland 1933–1939Regula LudiChapter 5. The 1930s: The End of the Latin American Open-door PolicyPatrick von zur MühlenChapter 6. Shanghai: A Last Resort for Desperate JewsSteve HochstadtChapter 7. Palestine as a Destination for Jewish Immigrants and Refugees from Nazi GermanyAviva HalamishChapter 8. American Refugee Policy in the 1930sBat-Ami ZuckerChapter 9. Were Unaccompanied Child Refugees a Privileged Class of Refugees in the Liberal States of Europe?Claudia CurioPART II: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF IMMIGRATION POLICIES OF LIBERAL STATES IN WESTERN EUROPE AND THE FLIGHT FROM NAZI GERMANYFrank Caestecker and Bob MooreChapter 9. The Legal Construction of Policy towards Aliens prior to 1933Chapter 10. Refugees from Nazi Germany and the Development of Refugee Policies, 1933–1937Chapter 11. The Deeping Crisis: March 1938–October 1938Chapter 12. From Kristallnacht to War, November 1938–August 1939ConclusionNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex

Frank Caestecker read history at the University of Ghent and worked as an eligibility officer for UNHCR and the Belgian asylum institution. He completed his graduate studies at the European University Institute in Florence and is now affiliated to the University of Ghent and the University College Ghent, focusing his research on alien policy in the nineteenth- and twentieth centuries and the influence this policy has on migration dynamics.

"The noteworthy strengths of this work are its transnational and comparative perspective and its nuanced analysis of the disparate practices of refugee policy below the level of discourse and official decision-making. [It] provides a thoughtfully critical examination of the controls used by officials in western Europe to manage the migration from the Third Reich and to withstand the pressures on their frontiers during the refugee crisis of 1938/39."  ·  German History“This is a thoroughly well-researched and organized book. “  ·  American Historical Review

• List of Tables and GraphsList of AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionFrank Caestecker and Bob MoorePART I: NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ANALYSES OF POLICIES TOWARDS THE REFUGEES FROM NAZI GERMANYChapter 1. International Refugee Policy and Jewish Immigration under the Shadow of National SocialismSusanne HeimChapter 2. The Danish Immigration Authorities and the Issue of RassenschandeLone RünitzChapter 3. Unwilling Refuge: France and the Dilemma of Illegal Immigration, 1933–1939Vicki CaronChapter 4. Dwindling Options: Seeking Asylum in Switzerland 1933–1939Regula LudiChapter 5. The 1930s: The End of the Latin American Open-door PolicyPatrick von zur MühlenChapter 6. Shanghai: A Last Resort for Desperate JewsSteve HochstadtChapter 7. Palestine as a Destination for Jewish Immigrants and Refugees from Nazi GermanyAviva HalamishChapter 8. American Refugee Policy in the 1930sBat-Ami ZuckerChapter 9. Were Unaccompanied Child Refugees a Privileged Class of Refugees in the Liberal States of Europe?Claudia CurioPART II: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF IMMIGRATION POLICIES OF LIBERAL STATES IN WESTERN EUROPE AND THE FLIGHT FROM NAZI GERMANYFrank Caestecker and Bob MooreChapter 9. The Legal Construction of Policy towards Aliens prior to 1933Chapter 10. Refugees from Nazi Germany and the Development of Refugee Policies, 1933–1937Chapter 11. The Deeping Crisis: March 1938–October 1938Chapter 12. From Kristallnacht to War, November 1938–August 1939ConclusionNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex

Frank Caestecker read history at the University of Ghent and worked as an eligibility officer for UNHCR and the Belgian asylum institution. He completed his graduate studies at the European University Institute in Florence and is now affiliated to the University of Ghent and the University College Ghent, focusing his research on alien policy in the nineteenth- and twentieth centuries and the influence this policy has on migration dynamics.

"The noteworthy strengths of this work are its transnational and comparative perspective and its nuanced analysis of the disparate practices of refugee policy below the level of discourse and official decision-making. [It] provides a thoughtfully critical examination of the controls used by officials in western Europe to manage the migration from the Third Reich and to withstand the pressures on their frontiers during the refugee crisis of 1938/39."  ·  German History“This is a thoroughly well-researched and organized book. “  ·  American Historical Review

• List of Tables and GraphsList of AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionFrank Caestecker and Bob MoorePART I: NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ANALYSES OF POLICIES TOWARDS THE REFUGEES FROM NAZI GERMANYChapter 1. International Refugee Policy and Jewish Immigration under the Shadow of National SocialismSusanne HeimChapter 2. The Danish Immigration Authorities and the Issue of RassenschandeLone RünitzChapter 3. Unwilling Refuge: France and the Dilemma of Illegal Immigration, 1933–1939Vicki CaronChapter 4. Dwindling Options: Seeking Asylum in Switzerland 1933–1939Regula LudiChapter 5. The 1930s: The End of the Latin American Open-door PolicyPatrick von zur MühlenChapter 6. Shanghai: A Last Resort for Desperate JewsSteve HochstadtChapter 7. Palestine as a Destination for Jewish Immigrants and Refugees from Nazi GermanyAviva HalamishChapter 8. American Refugee Policy in the 1930sBat-Ami ZuckerChapter 9. Were Unaccompanied Child Refugees a Privileged Class of Refugees in the Liberal States of Europe?Claudia CurioPART II: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF IMMIGRATION POLICIES OF LIBERAL STATES IN WESTERN EUROPE AND THE FLIGHT FROM NAZI GERMANYFrank Caestecker and Bob MooreChapter 9. The Legal Construction of Policy towards Aliens prior to 1933Chapter 10. Refugees from Nazi Germany and the Development of Refugee Policies, 1933–1937Chapter 11. The Deeping Crisis: March 1938–October 1938Chapter 12. From Kristallnacht to War, November 1938–August 1939ConclusionNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex