Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, is Professor of Imperial History at Flinders University and Honorary Professor at De Montfort University. He has published 4 monographs, 17 edited collections, and over 70 papers. He is the new Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History.Yianni Cartledge is a lecturer in Greek studies (culture) at Flinders University. His research interests include migration and the migrant experience, diaspora studies, Mediterranean histories (particularly those of the British and Ottoman Empires), and the history of modern Greece. Evan Smith is a Visiting Fellow at the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Humanities, University of Adelaide. He has published widely on the history of social movements, political extremism, national security, and borders.

"A high-quality volume composed of thoroughly researched essays which brings together a range of case studies providing a pioneering perspective on the study of migrants in Britain and its empire integrating national with global migration." – Panikos Panayi, De Montfort University, UK

• AcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsPart 1Introduction1 Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815–1949Andrekos Varnava, Yianni Cartledge and Evan SmithPart 2The Metropole2 ‘Eternal Poles’: The Rise and Decline of British Sympathy towards the Polish Refugees in the First Half of the 19th CenturyMilosz K. Cybowski3 ‘Grateful to the Lord’: A British Evangelical Response to the 19th Century Migration of Jews from Eastern EuropeJemima Jarman4 Asylum and Historical Memory in Victorian BritainThomas C. Jones5 ‘The Centre of Human Woe and Pathos’: The British Port Environment and the Right to Asylum, 1905–1914Vesna Curlic6 My Brother’s Keeper? Church of England Responses to Jewish Refugees from Europe, 1933–1939Chana Revell Kotzin7 Liverpool’s Chinese Community: The Second World War, Exile, and RepatriationAndrew Williams8 Polish Medical Refugees in Britain during and Immediately after the Second World WarMichał Adam Palacz9 Refugees from the Imperial Nation: The Poyais Case and Belize, 1823Jeffrey JonesPart 3British Imperial Experiences10 Seeking securo asilo: Malta’s Italian Refugee Crisis, 1815–1848Leslie Rogne Schumacher11 Chiot Refugees in the British Empire after the Chios Massacre (1822)Yianni Cartledge12 ‘The Most Useless Class of Emigrants’: Female Irish Famine Orphans in Colonial Australia, 1848–1850Jade Hastings13 Refugees from China to Hong Kong during the Treaty Ports EraRosaria Franco14 Controlling Colonial Borders: The Politics and Imperialism of White Russian Refugee Settlement in British CyprusAndrekos Varnava15 Refugee Campaigns in the Communist Press in Britain and Australia in the 1930sEvan SmithIndex