Amidst Russia’s war against Ukraine and against the backdrop of an often contentious and politicized shared history, Poland has demonstrated extraordinary solidarity with Ukraine, welcoming and helping thousands of refugees. Lidia Zessin-Jurek’s article discusses how various Polish memory frames have affected public attitudes towards the Ukrainian refugees and how in […]
Monthly Archives: April 2023
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We tend to push them aside on a daily basis, but the faraway conflicts, consequences of climate change and hunger, have long been reaching Europe’s borders, including, for some time, those of Eastern Europe. They take the form of refugees on our doorstep. What happens to these people once they […]
Workshop Call for Papers Prague, September 19-20, 2023 Petitions and addresses to higher authorities offer a unique look into people whose voice is hard to find in the material historians mostly use. Wishes or complaints addressed to places and representatives of power or appeals against decisions from the above was […]
The UnRef team member Francesca Rolandi published her new article titled “Shaping the nation through social work. Aid organizations for Istrian refugees in interwar Yugoslavia” in Italian in the «Qualestoria» journal, no. 2 (December 2022). The full text can be downloaded here Abstract: This article looks at the network of […]