‘UNRRA – You Never Really Rehabilitate Anyone’: Problems of Rehabilitation in Definition and Practice

Samantha K. Knapton

doi:10.5040/9781350182707.ch-1

‘UNRRA – You Never Really Rehabilitate Anyone’: Problems of Rehabilitation in Definition and Practice

Samantha K. Knapton

School of History and Art History

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Abstract

In Europe alone, it has been estimated that up to sixty million people were on the move by May 1945, while millions more across the globe were displaced from their homes by reasons of war. The ultimate goal of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) was to provide these peoples with ‘relief and rehabilitation’. How that was to be implemented, however, remained to be seen as the organization struggled to define what it meant by ‘rehabilitation’ throughout its lifetime and thereafter.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Relief and Rehabilitation for a Postwar World
Subtitle of host publication	Humanitarian Intervention and the UNRRA
Editors	Samantha K. Knapton, Katherine Rossy
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Bloomsbury Academic
Pages	17-36
Number of pages	20
ISBN (Electronic)	9781350179127
ISBN (Print)	9781350179110
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350182707.ch-1
Publication status	Published - 14 Dec 2023

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Name	Histories of Internationalism
Publisher	Bloomsbury Academic

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‘UNRRA – You Never Really Rehabilitate Anyone’: Problems of Rehabilitation in Definition and Practice. / Knapton, Samantha K.
Relief and Rehabilitation for a Postwar World: Humanitarian Intervention and the UNRRA. ed. / Samantha K. Knapton; Katherine Rossy. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. p. 17-36 (Histories of Internationalism).

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