Abstract
The path towards the classification of refugees and the recognition of their right of asylum in France followed a series of sometimes small and seemingly unrelated responses to foreign nationals before the end of hostilities and into the immediate post-war period. The Provisional Government sought to clarify, through temporary instructions and ordinances, who had a right to remain on French territory and who did not, and the legal conditions that applied in each instance. In addition, French refugees and deportees were returned and reintegrated into French society, and foreign refugees and prisoners of war of the Germans were repatriated. Many of these refugees, however, had no homes to return to, or they refused to return to their homelands that had fallen to Soviet Communism. The French Foreign and Interior ministries worked closely with the international refugee agencies in these years, the Intergovernmental Committee for Refugees (IGCR) and the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) to assist the displaced persons, and forged bilateral agreements on the repatriation of prisoners of war.
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