Czechoslovakia's Cold War Refugee Children

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>What can the lived experiences of Czechoslovak Cold War refugee children tell us about the lifetime impact of childhood forced migration?</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>This is the story of author </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>Miriam Potocky Rafaidus</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)> and more than thirty other Czechoslovak Cold War refugee children. </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>Miriam</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)> shares her lived experience as well as archival oral histories to ultimately answer the question: does anyone ever stop being a refugee?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>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.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>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.</span></p><p></p>