*Please note: this event was originally scheduled for February 13 and moved to February 20.*
In this workshop, Amelia Malpas will examine how welfare benefits were distributed to combatants who served in World War I and World War II in the United Kingdom, France, and the United States. Situating the analysis in literatures on postwar welfare provision and soldiers’ rights, Malpas asks whether metropolitan minorities and colonial soldiers received fewer welfare benefits than metropolitan majorities, and that group characteristics - such as political status, size, and prospects for independence - shaped the extent of these disparities.
