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 and nearly fifty other Czechoslovak Cold War refugee children. Miriam shares her lived experience, including her internal and external dialogue with the late Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, 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 an 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.
About the author
Professor Laura Hammond Ph D is Pro-Director (Pro-Vice Chancellor) of Research and Knowledge Exchange at SOAS University of London and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. She has conducted research on food security, conflict, migration and diasporas in and from the Horn of Africa since the early 1990s. She is Head of the London International Development Centre-Migration Leadership Team, Team Leader of the EU Trust Fund’s Research and Evidence Facility on migration and conflict in the Horn of Africa, and Co-Director of the SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies. She is the author of This Place Will Become Home: Refugee Repatriation to Ethiopia.
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