title: Introduction: Postcolonial Migrations and Identity Politics: Towards a Comparative Perspective
abstract: On the eve of the Second World War, the governments of Western Europe were as ill-prepared for the war to come as they were for its devastating consequences to their colonial empires.Even less did they anticipate the large-scale migrations that would accompany decolonization.This book addresses postcolonial migrations, not just to Europe but also beyond.The assumption of the contributions is that it is useful to differentiate the category of 'postcolonial migrants' from other types of migrants, 
journal: Berghahn Books