Pedro Correa Martin-Arroyo is a historian of modern Europe and international history, specialising in the Second World War, the Holocaust, refugees, and international relations. His research examines the movement and confinement of refugees across Europe and the Mediterranean, with particular attention to Spain, Portugal, France, and North Africa. He has taught modern and international history at LSE, Royal Holloway, and King’s College London, including courses on the Cold War, the causes of war, and historical approaches. 

Research Interests

• Modern European and International History
• The Second World War and Holocaust
• Refugee and Migration History
• International Relations
• The History of Humanitarianism
• Spain, Portugal, France and North Africa.

His research explores the history of refugees, mobility, and confinement in Europe during the Second World War, with a particular focus on Jewish refugees moving through France, Spain, and Portugal between 1940 and 1944. His work examines how states, humanitarian organisations, and private networks responded to refugee movements, and how borders, camps, transportation systems, and international political structures shaped refugees’ possibilities for movement and survival. He is particularly interested in the relationship between mobility and confinement, the role of humanitarian and transnational networks, and the wider political and economic structures within which refugee movements took place. His research also considers the connections between Europe, North Africa, and the Mediterranean, situating the history of wartime refugees within broader histories of empire, international relations, and global mobility.

Publications

• ‘Entre Sauvetage et Aliyah : la Résistance Juive en France et l’Évacuation Clandestine de Juifs à travers l’Espagne, 1942-1944’, Revue d’histoire de la Shoah (forthcoming Spring 2027).
• ‘La España Franquista y la Crisis de Refugiados Europeos, 1939-44: Persecución, Arresto y Extradición’, Studi Interculturali (Università de Trieste) 19 (2020): 77-100.
• ‘The Politics of Survival: Madrid’s pro-Jewish Propaganda and the Canonization of Francisco Franco as Benefactor of Jews’, in Gina Herrmann and Sara Brenneis (eds.), Spain, World War II, and the Holocaust: History and Representation (University of Toronto Press, 2020), 373-388.
• ‘Spain and the Holocaust: Contested Past, Contested Present’, in Simone Gigliotti, and Hilary Earl (eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Holocaust (Wiley Blackwell, 2020), 397-412.
• ‘Franco, Savior of the Jews? Tracing the Genealogy of the Myth and Assessing its Persistence in recent Historiography’, in Alexandra Garbarini and Paul Jaskot (eds.), Lessons and Legacies of the Holocaust XIII: New Approaches to an Integrated History of the Holocaust: Social History, Representation, Theory (Northwestern University Press, 2018), 195-218.
• ‘The Politics of Holocaust Rescue Myths in Spain: from Francoist Legend to the Righteous Diplomats’, in International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (ed.), Bystanders, Rescuers or Perpetrators? The Neutral Countries and the Shoah (Berlin: Metropol-Verlag, 2016), 205-216.