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Refugees and Citizens in Twentieth-Century East Central Europe: An Unlikely Refuge? book cover

1st Edition

Refugees and Citizens in Twentieth-Century East Central Europe An Unlikely Refuge?

Edited By Michal Frankl Copyright 2026
270 Pages
by Central European University Press

Visited by violence and wars, border changes and political instability, authoritarian and totalitarian regimes as well as ethnic conflict, cleansing, and genocide, East-Central Europe in the twentieth century seemed an unlikely place of protection for refugees. This volume challenges this widespread view and explores a variety of forms of refugee protection, humanitarianism, and refugee agency in... Read more

Refugees and Citizens in East-Central Europe in the Twentieth Century: Introduction to an Unlikely Refuge

Michal Frankl

1. Jewish Refugees, Encampment, and the Humanitarian Paradox in Austria-Hungary during the First World War

Doina Anca Cretu

2. Places of Passage or Precarious Sanctuaries? The Negotiations between Refugees and State Authorities in an Upper Adriatic Borderland

Francesca Rolandi

3. Refugee Temporalities: Time Displacement in the Flight of Polish Jews from Nazism (A Conceptual Study)

Lidia Zessin-Jurek

4. The Construction of a Political Refugee: Foreign Comrades in 1950s Socialist Czechoslovakia

Nikola Tohma

5. The “Stomach Question”: Food and Refugee Children from Greece in East Germany and Poland

Julia Reinke

6. From Refugees to Labor Migrants: Cold War Austria in the East-Central European Context

Maximilian Graf

7. (Not So) Temporary Refuge? Navigating Multiple Temporalities among 1990s Bosnian Refugees to Czechoslovakia and Czechia

Karla Koutková

8. Toward a Conceptual History of Refugees in Hungary

Ágnes Katalin Kelemen

Conclusion: (Un)Likely Refuge and (Un)Known Refugees

Michal Frankl

Biography

Michal Frankl is the Head of the Department of “Knowledge and Participation” of the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO). He was the Principle Investigator of the ERC Consolidator Project Unlikely Refuge? hosted at the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

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