What are the synergies and differences in usage of various interviewing techniques in history and across social sciences? How will oral history and biographic interviewing fit in the Unlikely Refuge? project? What ethical aspects need to be considered? These and other questions were under discussion during the project January meeting. […]
Internal workshops
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In the autumn of 2020, the Unlikely Refuge? team held an internal workshop with a focus on refugee and migration regimes. With the help of selected readings, including the ‘standard’ work by Claudena Skran on the first international attempts to address the refugee problem in the wake of WWI, we […]
April 4, 20, 27 and May 4, 2020 Despite the recent research and publication boom, the field of migration history has never been a core topic of Cold War studies, even though it is increasingly studied and revisited. A traditional narrative on refugees in Cold War Europe clearly follows the […]
During a two-day internal workshop in January 2020, the Unlikely Refuge? research team discussed the use of anthropological methods in the historical research of refugeeness and humanitarianism. Our debate developed around similarities and differences between the historical and anthropological theoretical approaches and research methods. Furthermore, we considered the applicability of […]
In December 2019, the Unlikely Refuge? team met at Polin Museum in Warsaw to discuss various aspects of space and border in refugee studies. Forced migration is intrinsically connected to space as it entails displacement, leaving home, the challenges of traversing long distances and arriving somewhere else. This new place, […]