World War I Refugees in Austria-Hungary and the International Community, 1914-1923 (Transferred out to University of Western Sydney 21/01/2011)

This project is the first international study of WWI refugees in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It links thewartime refugees with the empires collapse in 1918 and shows how nearly two million displaced citizens ofthe empire became, almost overnight, citizens of the new states of Austria, Hungary, Poland,Czechoslovakia, Romania and Yugoslavia. It provides a new approach to refugee studies by placing localand state responses to refugees within a global context of international organizations, groups and decisionmaking.The project thus shows how refugee movements have contributed not only to the displacement oftheir own national communities, but also to the displacement of states in the twentieth century.