During the 1930s, thousands of social scientists fled the Nazi regime or other totalitarian European regimes, mainly towards the Americas. The New School for Social Research (NSSR) in New York City and El Colegio de México (Colmex) in Mexico City both were built based on receiving exiled academics from Europe.

Chapter 1. Exile Dynamics and Impacts of European Social Scientists since the 1930s: Transnational Lives and Travelling Theories at El Colegio de México and the New School for Social Research in New York.- Chapter 2. Crossroads: US and Mexican Reactions to Repression in Europe 1930-1939.- Chapter 3. Reflections on the New School's Founding Moments, 1919 and 1933.- Chapter 4. Refugee Scholars and the New School for Social Research in New York after 1933: Intellectual Transfer and Impact.- Chapter 5. Agents" of "Westernization"?: The Impact of German Refugees of the Nazi Regime.- Chapter 6. The Holocaust and German-Jewish Culture in Exile.- Chapter 7. Waves of Exile: The Reception of Émigrés in Mexico, 1920-1980.- Chapter 8. International Rescue of Academics, Intellectuals and Artists from Nazism during the Second World War: The Experience of Mexico.- Chapter 9.The Institutional Reception of Spanish Émigré Intellectuals in Mexico: The Pioneering Role of La Casa de España, 1938-1940.- Chapter 10. Two Aspects of Exile.- Chapter 11. José Gaos and José Medina Echavarría: The Intellectual Vocation.- Chapter 12. The Constitution of Sociology at El Colegio de México: Two Key Intellectual Cohorts of Refugees and the Legacies They Left for Mexico and Latin America.- Chapter 13. Comparing Contexts, Institutions and Periods of the Émigrés' Arrival and Possible Return.