The Unlikely refuge? (UnRef) team members contributed to the latest issue of the Czech public history journal Dějiny a současnost (The History and the Present). Under the title “Unconventional” Refugees, among others, they attempt to draw attention to the often-neglected topic of refugees to socialism, which fell out of the scope […]
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The Unlikely Refuge? team member Doina Anca Cretu published an essay titled “A Regime of Immobility” in the History Workshop journal. Can refugee assistance become a way to contain? Doina Anca Cretu explores how those fleeing Austria-Hungary’s peripheries in the First World War could also be immobilised, as they were […]
While emigration of the bulk of German-speaking Jews merged into the paradigmatic of the refugee phenomenon, wartime refugeedom of Polish Jews is perceived as a delayed and marginal attempt to save one’s life. The possible reasons for these interpretative differences are analysed in the article by the Unlikely Refuge? member […]
Doina Anca Cretu, the member of the Unlikely refuge? ERC research project, published a short article titled “Epidemics in Europe’s Refugee Camps: A Tale of Two Eras.” Her text was released in the last issue of the Papiers d’actualité/Current Affairs in Perspective (No. 11, December 2020), issued by the Pierre […]
The Unlikely Refuge? ERC project’s Principal Investigator Michal Frankl published his new article titled “Citizenship of No Man’s Land? Jewish Refugee Relief in Zbąszyń and East-Central Europe, 1938–1939” in the last issue of the S:I.M.O.N. Shoah: Intervention. Methods. Documentation (02/2020), the open-access journal of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust […]
Frankl, Michal. ‘Země nikoho 1938. Deportace za hranice občanství’. Forum Historiae 13, no. 1 (2019): 92–115. https://doi.org/10.31577/forhist.2019.13.1.7Output of the Czech Science Foundation project No. GA18-16793S. In November 1938, following the First Vienna Award and the loss of Southern Slovakia, the leadership of the autonomous Slovakia triggered the deportations of thousands […]
The last issue of S:I.M.O.N. – Shoah: Intervention. Methods. DocumentatiON (2018/2), the open-access journal published by the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, includes a section on refugees in East-Central Europe prepared by guest editors Michal Frankl and Wolfgang Schellenbacher. The articles, listed below, originate from the workshop “Refugees and […]