A report on the workshop “Petitioning on the Move”, written by Emilia Henkel (Historisches Institut, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität-Jena), was published on H-Soz-Kult. The workshop was organized by Masaryk Institute and Archives, Czech Academy of Sciences; in cooperation with the ERC-funded projects “NEPOSTRANS – Negotiating post-imperial transitions: from remobilization to nation-state consolidation. A […]
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Nikola Tohma (Masaryk Institute and Archives, Czech Academy of Sciences) and Khalida Azhigulova (Eurasian Technological University) will present in the online session entitled “Unsung asylum: The law and practice of refugee hosting in communist and authoritarian states.” It is organized within the 15th International Refugee Law Seminar Series: Moments in Refugee History […]
We are pleased to share the information that our colleague Francesca Rolandi has just published her article Yugoslavia is (not) a Refugee Country? Refugees between Transit and Integration in an Ever-Changing Socialist State in the Nationalities Papers. The text is available as open-access! Throughout the Cold War, Yugoslavia was the […]
The recently published collective volume Reimagining Citizenship in Postwar Europe (ed. R. Chin – S.C. Huneke; Cornell University Press 2025) features a book chapter on citizenship and statelessness of Greek Civil War refugees in Czechoslovakia, written by the UnRef team member Nikola Tohma. Reimagining Citizenship in Postwar Europe maps the generation and […]
Prague, June 18-20, 2025 Organised by the ERC Consolidator project Unlikely Refuge? Refugees and Citizens in East-Central Europe in the 20th Century, Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences In the decades following the Second World War, the image of refugee protection became increasingly associated with the […]