The Temptation of Legitimacy: Exile Politics from a Comparative Perspective

Contemporary European History

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 395-405

  Goddeeris, Idesbald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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EID: 85008579678     PISSN: 09607773     EISSN: 14692171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0960777307003992     Document Type: Review

References (10)

1. About the problems of defining exiles, refugees and political migrants, see Shain (7-13) and Dufoix (23-7, 49-53).
2. M. R. Marrus, The Unwanted: European Refugees in the Twentieth Century (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985), 9, 15.
3. L. P. Moch, Moving Europeans. Migration in Western Europe since 1650 (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1992).
4. Javier Tusell and Alicia Alted, ‘The Government of the Spanish Republic in Exile (1939-1977)’, in Yossi Shain, ed., Governments-in-Exile in ContemporaryWorld Politics (New York and London: Routledge, 1991), 161.
5. Romuald J. Misiunas, ‘Sovereignty without Government: Baltic Diplomatic and Consular Representation, 1940-1990’, in Shain, Governments-in-Exile, 143.
6. Although sometimes they were initially perceived as the ones who escape, e.g. in postwar Germany or Italy (fuoruscito).
7. Yet, as illustrated at the beginning, his findings that ‘at the end of the war the governments-in-exile of Norway and the Benelux countries, in particular, contributed significantly to the re-democratization of their countries’, are contested by Conway (quotation from Yossi Shain, ‘Introduction: Governmentsin-Exile and the Age of Democratic Transitions’, in Shain, Governments-in-Exile, 4).
8. Although it was always ‘only one factor in determining a victorious homecoming’ (Shain, p. 167).
9. Claude Bontems, ‘The Government of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic’, Third World Quarterly, 9 (1987), 168-86. The Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, a largely unrecognised de facto state, was occupied shortly after Spain relinquished its sovereignty in 1976, first by Mauritania (until 1979), then by Morocco (until 1991; the majority of the territory is still administered by Morocco).
10. Le Soir, 17 Jan. 1976. About Unger, see Aagje Weynants and Idesbald Goddeeris, ‘Leopold Unger alias “Brukselczyk”, Specialist of European Integration in the Paris Monthly “Kultura”?’, in Michel Dumoulin and Idesbald Goddeeris, eds., Integration or Representation? Polish Exiles in Belgium and the European Construction (Louvain-la-Neuve: Academia Bruylant, 2005), 141-54.