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Czechoslovakia's Cold War Refugee Children: Contemporary Resonance

by Miriam Potocky Rafaidus

Childhood displacement across a lifetime

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Childhood displacement across a lifetime

Miriam Potocky Rafaidus brings her own experience together with archival oral histories from more than thirty Czechoslovak children who became refugees during the Cold War. Their testimonies frame an inquiry into the lasting effects of forced migration in childhood and whether refugee status continues to shape a person’s life over time. The book connects these accounts to questions of memory, trauma, and ethnic identity, while considering lessons relevant to refugee children and youth today and in the future. Its subject joins personal testimony with historical material, giving particular attention to a group the description identifies as underexamined.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Students of Forced Migration and Refugee Studies, Ethnic Studies, or Exile Studies
  • Readers studying contemporary, immigration, or social history
  • Those interested in childhood displacement, identity, and the long-term effects of migration

Themes

Childhood forced migrationMemory and traumaEthnic identityRefugee experience across the lifespan

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Book overview

What can the lived experiences of Czechoslovak Cold War refugee children tell us about the lifetime impact of childhood forced migration?

 

This is the story of author Miriam Potocky Rafaidus and more than thirty other Czechoslovak Cold War refugee children. Miriam shares her lived experience, as well as archival oral histories, to ultimately answer the question: does anyone ever stop being a refugee?

 

These testimonies from some of the earliest and youngest refugees in contemporary history will illuminate an underexamined group and explore what lessons can be learned applying to refugee children and youth of today and tomorrow.

 

Engaging with themes such as memory, trauma, and ethnic identity, this book is ideal reading for students of Forced Migration and Refugee Studies, Ethnic Studies, Gerontology, Contemporary History, Immigration History, Developmental Psychology, Exile Studies, Anthropology, and Sociology.

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