Immigration and Exile Foreign-Language Press in the UK and in the US

Both Britain and the United States have had a long history of harbouring foreign political exiles, who often set up periodicals which significantly contributed to community-building and political debates. However, this varied and complex journalism has received little attention to date, particularly regarding the languages in which it was produced.
This wide-ranging edited volume brings together for the first time interdisciplinary case studies of the exile foreign-language press (in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Flemish, Polish, among other languages) across Britain and the US, establishing a useful comparative framework to explore how periodicals tackled key political, linguistic and literary issues from the 19th century to the present day.
Building on the existing literature on the exile foreign-language press in the United States and developing the study of this phenomenon in the British context, Immigration and Exile Foreign-Language Press in the UK and in the US offers fresh perspectives into how these marginalised periodicals influenced the political, economic and social contexts that brought them into existence.
This is a major contribution to the burgeoning field of transnational periodicals and will be of interest to anyone studying the history of the Anglo-American press, the history of immigration and cultural history.

Stéphanie Prévost is Senior Lecturer in 19th-century British History at Paris Diderot University - Paris 7, France. She has published journal articles on 19th-century British political history, representations of the Orient and the role of the media in humanitarian diplomacy.
Bénédicte Deschamps is Associate Professor in American Studies at Paris Diderot University - Paris 7, France. She is the co-editor of Racial, Ethnic, and Homophobic Violence: Killing in the Name of Otherness (2007), alongside Michel Prum and Marie-Claude Barbier.

List of Illustrations
Introduction - Print Media in a Foreign Tongue Across the Atlantic: Common Grounds, Diverging Approaches, Bénédicte Deschamps and Stéphanie Prévost (both of Paris Cité University, France)
Part I - Journalism without Borders
1. The Hebrew 'Wandering Press' in Europe: The Lebanon from Jerusalem to Paris, Mainz and London (1863-1886), Gideon Kouts (University of Paris 8, France)
2. A Transnational Radical Print Culture: Anarchist Periodicals Between London, Paris and the US Before 1914, Constance Bantman (University of Surrey, UK)
3. Collaborating from Across the Atlantic: Gigi Damiani and the Italian Anarchist Press in the US (1909-1953), Isabelle Felici (Paul-Valéry University of Montpellier 3, France)
Part II - Community Building and Transculturation
4. French-Language Almanacs in the United States from the 19th to the early 20th Century: Social and Transcultural Dimensions, Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink (Saarland University, Germany)
5. The Anglo-German Press in the Long Nineteenth Century, Susan Reed (The British Library, UK)
6. Origins and Cultural Imaginary of the 19th-Century Portuguese Press in the US, Alberto Pena Rodríguez (The University of Vigo, Spain)
7. Spotlight on Jim Crow: Radical Slovak and Polish Immigrant Newspapers in Solidarity with the Black Civil Rights Movement, Robert Zecker (Saint Francis Xavier University, Canada)
8. Contested Identities of Poles in the UK in Polish-Language Online Media Following Brexit, Katarzyna Molek Kozakowska (University of Opole, Poland)
Part III - Betwixt Local Politics and the Home Country's Politics
9. Betwixt Spain and England: Spanish Liberals' Spanish-Language Mediatic Strategies in London (1810-1850), María José Ruiz Acosta (University of Poland, Spain)
10. Debating the Great Idea in Manhattan: The New York Greek-Language Press and the Eastern Question on the Eve of the Lausanne Treaty (1919-1922), Nicolas Pitsos (National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations, France)
11. Barzini Overseas: Il Corriere d'America Between Promoting 'Italianità' and Fascist Propaganda, Lorenzo Benadusi (Roma Tre University, Italy)
Part IV: Monolingualism, Plurilingualism and Rivaling Languages
12. The Multiple Roles of French-Language Periodicals in London and Sydney during the 19th Century, Valentina Gosetti (University of New England, Australia)
13. Revolution and Latinidad in US-Based Spanish-Language Press the Late 19th Century, Kelley Kreitz (Pace University, USA)
14. Divergency in Russian Emigré Publishing in Late Victorian Britain: The Case of the Narodovolets and The Anglo-Russian, Robert Henderson (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
15. Language Choice and the Construction of a Cosmopolitan Armenian Diasporic Identity in London and Paris: Le Haiasdan, L'Arménie and Armenia & Hnch'ak (1888-1905), Stéphanie Prévost (Paris Diderot University- Paris 7, France)
16. Belgian Refugees during the First World War, their Exile Press and Fragmented Identity, Christophe Declercq (University College London, UK)