European and Latin American social scientists as refugees, Émigrés and return‐migrants

Ludger Pries, Pablo Yankelevich (eds)

Palgrave Macmillan - Basingstoke

2019

During the 1930s, thousands of social scientists fled the Nazi regime or other totalitarian European regimes, mainly towards the Americas. The New School for Social Research (NSSR) in New York City and El Colegio de México (Colmex) in Mexico City both were built based on receiving exiled academics from Europe.