How refugees in Britain went from living in old bunkers and stately homes to being detained in cells
- Written by Jordanna Bailkin, Professor of History, University of Washington
Mass movement of refugees has turned into mass detention in many liberal democracies.
These are strange days to be writing about camps and refugees. As a historian of Britain and a scholar of refugee studies, I have studied how the U.K. handled mass encampments in its recent past, from the First World War to the 1980s.
As I write, the U.S....