
Czechoslovakia's Cold War Refugee Children
Contemporary Resonance
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Czechoslovakia's Cold War Refugee Children
Contemporary Resonance
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Contents
- Learning objectives
- Foreword
- 1 A childhood disrupted: A journey through forced migration and identity
- 2 Echoes of home: Childhood memories before displacement
- 3 Crossing borders: The journey of displacement
- 4 Czechlish: Growing up bilingual and bicultural
- 5 Inherited shadows: Historical trauma
- 6 Returned Czechs: Retracing roots
- 7 Am I still a refugee?: The lifelong journey
- Recommended assignments
- References
- Czech out these movies
- Participant biographies
- Index