Peter Gatrell - The Unsettling of Europe

F IRST AND FOREMOST , my thanks go to Simon Winder at Penguin Books and Lara Heimert at Basic Books for inviting me to write a book about European migration since 1945, and to Felicity Bryan for being a staunch advocate from the outset. They have all offered much-needed encouragement along the way. I should also like to mention Paul Betts, who originally recommended me to the Felicity Bryan Agency.

Katie Lambright at Basic Books sent me numerous comments on a first draft: she knows how much her careful and perceptive reading improved what was originally a sprawling manuscript. As copyeditor, Kathy Streckfus helped me to put my ideas across more clearly. I am enormously grateful to them both for their advice. I would also like to thank Ellen Davies, Stephanie Summerhays, and others on the team at Penguin and Basic Books, and George Lucas at Inkwell Management in New York. I found it very inspiring at a late stage to work with my picture editor, Cecilia Mackay. Her advice on images and layout was much appreciated.

I am grateful to the Faculty of Humanities and the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at the University of Manchester for granting me research leave that enabled me to work on this book and to manage all my other commitments.

Much of what I have to say in this book relies heavily on the work of specialists in the field, as well as the published testimony of migrants. I hope the endnotes reflect how much I owe to them. Colleagues at the ever-helpful staff in the Document Supply Unit at the University of Manchester Library kept me supplied with books. I should also like to thank staff at Cambridge University Library and the Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science, where browsing the stacks regularly threw up all sorts of surprises. This is also an opportunity to acknowledge once again the many archivists whose expertise enabled me to carry out research for this and other books of mine.

Given the scope of this book, I needed to consult with people who could advise me on my areas of ignorance. In naming them and expressing my gratitude, I should emphasise that none of them should be held responsible for any errors or misinterpretation on my part.

Katia Chornik, Hans Wallage, and Gustav ngeby contributed valuable research assistance at an early stage, and I am grateful to them for placing at my disposal their knowledge of the literature in Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish, respectively.

A number of colleagues at the University of Manchester offered advice on specific issues and encouraged me along the way. They include Ana Carden-Coyne, Eleanor Davey, Alex Dowdall, Pierre Fuller, Yoram Gorlizki, Sasha Handley, Laure Humbert, Jo Laycock, Margaret Littler, Yaron Matras, Frank Mort, Tanja Mller, Kasia Nowak, Sarah Roddy, Julie-Marie Strange, Bertrand Taithe, Vera Tolz, and Alexia Yates, together with Jackie Ould and Hannah Niblett at the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre. I also profited from discussions with Ria Sunga and Becky Viney-Wood, as well as with successive cohorts of undergraduate students.