Refugee Crises, 1945-2000: Political and Societal Responses in International Comparison

Jan C. Jansen is a professor of global history at the University of Duisburg-Essen and principal investigator of the research project 'Atlantic Exiles: Refugees and Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1770s-1820s' funded by the European Research Council. A historian of Europe's entanglements with the world since the late eighteenth century and of decolonization, he is coeditor of Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar Germany and France (2016), a systematic comparison of two of the largest involuntary population movements to post-1945 Europe.

Simone Lässig is Director of the German Historical Institute, Washington and Professor of Modern History at the University of Braunschweig. Her first book, a study of the campaign for electoral reform in Saxony, won the 1996 Horst Springer Prize. In 2004, the German Historical Association awarded her its biennial prize for the best second book (Habilitationsschrift, 2003) for her study of the embourgeoisement of German Jewry. Her research currently focuses on modern Jewish history, the history of knowledge, migration history, and digital history.