"This book examines the efforts and experiences of displaced persons after the Second World War to leave Europe for resettlement through the International Refugee Organisation, and the creation of new categories of legitimacy for refugees as immigrants in this period"-- Provided by publisher.

Telling the truth in postwar Europe --"There Has Been a Lot of Dirt Here" : denunciations and accusations -- Housewives and opportunists : categorizing DP women and wives -- Unaccompanied children and unfit mothers -- The children left behind -- "The top-heavy slow-turning wheel" : from Europe to Australia -- Address unknown : tracing the disappeared.