Prague, April 11–12, 2024 The refugee experience is inevitably spatial. It involves movement between different places and imagination of locations as spaces of protection or danger, of mobility or immobility. It is no coincidence that terms like refuge, displacement, andasylum express the spatial dimension. Being uprooted often results in a […]
Monthly Archives: October 2023
The Principal Investigator of the ERC project “Unlikely Refuge?” Michal Frankl commented on the interwar Czechoslovak refugee policy for the “SOPADE90” film, produced by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Prag to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the establishment of this Prague-based exile organization of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Available on YouTube in […]
The Principal Investigator of the ERC Project Unlikely Refuge? Michal Frankl has published his book entitled Občané země nikoho. Uprchlíci a pohyblivé hranice středovýchodní Evropy 1938-1939 (in Czech, Citizens of No Man’s Land. Refugees and Moving Borders of East Central Europe, 1938-1939). At the end of the 1930s, groups of […]