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essay on refugees at the end of France’s Algerian War, and Glen Peterson’s capacious essay on colonialism, sovereignty, and the international refugee regime. Those essays that target European refugees, their treatment, and history offer acute analyses. Tony Kushner elucidates the uses of history against refugees and the amnesia that allows governments to indulge in unwarranted self-congratulation. Mark Levene uses the geographic moniker of rimlands to locate the great displacements of Jews dating from the nineteenth century through the Nazi regime, moving forward to close with the displacement of Palestinians and “Arab Jews” since the 1940s. Carl Bon Tempo follows US policy through its balance of aid with limited admissions through the anti-communism of Cold War policies. The editors complain that historians have given little attention to refugees because in contrast to other marginalized groups, they have yet to be integrated into mainstream history. Yet major works of migration history, such as Dirk Hoerder’s Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium (2002), include the movements of refugees on one end of the spectrum from forced to voluntary movement. The editors do admit, “if you knew where to look, you could always find historians writing about refugees in some contexts” (9). They recognize Gatrell’s pioneering history, The Making of the Modern Refugee (2013) and see this volume as building on its foundations. By including essays under the title Refugees in Europe that stretch far beyond Europe and beyond the mid-twentieth century, the editors propose to identify connections among these perspectives and histories. This collection succeeds because its expert authors and editors elucidate the rich variety and the ubiquity of the refugee experience, without eliding its devastating inhumane aspects. Readers of this journal may read it for the experience of eastern Europe in the twentieth century, yet it has something to teach historians of every continent.