Episode 20, Refugee Histories in East-Central Europe in the 20th Century, Gast: Michal Frankl

Episode 20, Refugee Histories in East-Central Europe in the 20th Century, Gast: Michal Frankl

In the 20th episode of the migration history podcast “Transit”, Michal Frankl talks with Franziska Lamp-Miechowiecki about results from his recently finished ERC-project “Unlikely Refuge. Refugees and Citizens in East-Central Europe in the 20th century” as well as about his previous research on the role of “stateless spaces” and the experience of the “no man’s land” in East-Central European border regions in the late 1930s. 
Frankl also discusses his research on post-communist refugee policies in the 1990s as well as his more recent endeavours in the field of citizen-science to create archives by and about migrants and refugees.

Redaktion: Franziska Lamp-Miechowiecki
Produktion: Magdalena Ragl, Franziska Lamp-Miechowiecki

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Michal Frankl is the head of the department “Knowledge and Participation” of the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe. He is the author of „Prag ist nunmehr antisemitisch“ (2011), a history of Czech antisemitism at the end of the 19^th century and together with Miloslav Szabó of Budování státu bez antisemitismu? (Building of a State With No Antisemitism?, 2015), an analysis of antisemitism in the transition from the Habsburg Empire to the Czechoslovak nation state. With Kateřina Čapková, he wrote Unsichere Zuflucht (2012), a critical history of Czechoslovak refugee policy in the 1930s. His last book (Občané země nikoho, Citizens of the No Man’s Land, 2023) examines the rapid appearance of no man’s lands for refugees at the end of the 1930s and the ethnonational reorientation of citizenship in Eastern and Central Europe. He was the principal investigator of the ERC Consolidator project “Unlikely refuge? Refugees and citizens in East-Central Europe in the 20th century” hosted the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Starting with 2025, he is the principal investigator of the project “Migration and us: Mobility, Refugees and Borders in a Humanities Perspective” (MyGRACE) funded through the Johannes Amos Comenius Programme. He served as work package leader in the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure projects and helped to develop the EHRI Document Blog, online editions as well as the Geospatial Repository.