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Czechoslovakia's cold war refugee children : contemporary resonance / Miriam Potocky Rafaidus ; edited by T. Alexander Aleinikoff & Laura Hammond.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rafaidus, Miriam Potocky, author.
- Series:
- Forced Migration Studies, Cultural Anthropology (Lived Places Publishing)
- Forced Migration Studies, Cultural Anthropology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gerontology.
- Anthropology.
- Migration.
- Czechoslovakia.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (124 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- contemporary resonance
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Lived Places Publishing, 2025.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Learning objectives
- Foreword
- Chapter 1 A childhood disrupted: A journey through forced migration and identity
- Chapter 2 Echoes of home: Childhood memories before displacement
- Chapter 3 Crossing borders: The journey of displacement
- Chapter 4 Czechlish: Growing up bilingual and bicultural
- Chapter 5 Inherited shadows: Historical trauma
- Chapter 6 Returned Czechs: Retracing roots
- Chapter 7 Am I still a refugee?: The lifelong journey
- Recommended assignments
- References
- Czech out these movies
- Participant biographies
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on Publisher's website, viewed April 15, 2025.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Czechoslovakia's cold war refugee children : contemporary resonance.
- ISBN:
- 9781915734709
- 9781915734693
- OCLC:
- 1511763352
- Publisher Number:
- 10.62859/9781915734709 DOI
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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