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Postwar Population Transfers in Europe: A Survey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

Joseph B. Schechtman
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For the purpose of this survey, a population transfer is defined as the organized removal of an ethnic group from its country of residence and its subsequent resettlement in territory under the sovereignty of its ethnic homeland in which the whole is a stateconducted operation based sometimes on international agreement between two states concerned and at other times arising from unilateral action by the state of departure, with or without international sanction.

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The Review of Politics , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , April 1953 , pp. 151 - 178
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Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1953

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