Immigration and Exile Foreign-Language Press in the UK and in the US: Connected Histories of the 19th and 20th Centuries

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Both Britain and the United States have had a long history of harbouring foreign political exiles, who often set up periodicals which significantly contributed to community-building and political debates. However, this varied and complex journalism has received little attention to date, particularly regarding the languages in which it was produced. This wide-ranging edited volume brings together for the first time interdisciplinary case studies of the exile foreign-language press (in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Flemish, Polish, among other languages) across Britain and the US, establishing a useful comparative framework to explore how periodicals tackled key political, linguistic and literary issues from the 19th century to the present day. Building on the existing literature on the exile foreign-language press in the United States and developing the study of this phenomenon in the British context, Immigration and Exile Foreign-Language Press in the UK and in the US offers fresh perspectives into how these marginalised periodicals influenced the political, economic and social contexts that brought them into existence. This is a major contribution to the burgeoning field of transnational periodicals and will be of interest to anyone studying the history of the Anglo-American press, the history of immigration and cultural history.

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Bndicte Deschamps is Associate Professor in American Studies at Paris Diderot University - Paris 7, France. She is the co-editor of Racial, Ethnic, and Homophobic Violence: Killing in the Name of Otherness (2007), alongside Michel Prum and Marie-Claude Barbier. Stphanie Prvost is Senior Lecturer in 19th-century British History at Paris Diderot University - Paris 7, France. She has published journal articles on 19th-century British political history, representations of the Orient and the role of the media in humanitarian diplomacy.