Forced Migration

Posts from LPP authors in Forced Migration Studies.

Black and white photo loooking up at a residential building. Source: Martin Kopta, Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.

What the United States Can Learn from Postwar Czechoslovakia

by Miriam Potocky Rafaidus | Today, as I watch troubling developments unfold in the United States, I can’t help but feel history knocking—not softly, but insistently. The parallels between the collapse of Czechoslovak democracy in 1948 and the democratic backsliding occurring in the U.S. under the Trump administration in 2025 are unnerving.

Miriam Potocky Rafaidus April 30, 2025

How to Inspire and Sustain Creative Resistance

How do we remain hopeful to maintain ‘the energy to act’ when confronted with a daily onslaught of visual evidence of the worst in mankind? This requires a shift from an individual to a relational ethics that strengthens our response-ability.

Cindy Horst October 23, 2024

Recent Posts

Reverse Engineering as a Curriculum Development Process
by Michael Boezi
May 6, 2025
FREE SEMINAR NOV 13, 2025: In this conversation between Anne Cecil and Dr. Reham El-Morally, they discuss the practice-based pedagogy of starting with current trends and deconstructing their influences – not only to build connections between the past and present but also to encourage students to reflect on how historical cycles, subcultures, and innovations influence contemporary identities and cultural narratives.
What the United States Can Learn from Postwar Czechoslovakia
by Miriam Potocky Rafaidus
April 30, 2025
by Miriam Potocky Rafaidus | Today, as I watch troubling developments unfold in the United States, I can’t help but feel history knocking—not softly, but insistently. The parallels between the collapse of Czechoslovak democracy in 1948 and the democratic backsliding occurring in the U.S. under the Trump administration in 2025 are unnerving.
The Ongoing Epidemic of Violence Against American Indian and Native Women & Girls
by Lara and Lisa Neel
April 23, 2025
Violence against American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) women is ongoing in the U.S. – and it's personal for Lara Neel and Lisa Neel. On February 13, 1872, their grandfather’s great-grandmother was murdered. Today, they use their historic dressmaking work to tell a woman-focused, Cherokee-centered story that has relevance today.
El Salvador and U.S. Policy Then and Now: Memoirs and the Present
by David Hinkley
April 9, 2025
In 2025, Kilmar Abrego Garcia was wrongly deported from the U.S. to El Salvador, where torture is systematically practiced to this day. Lifelong activist David Hinkley shows how urgent it is that outrage inspires a new generation to join and lead the fight.
The Construction of Latinidad Within Speculative Fiction
by Michael Boezi
March 25, 2025
FREE SEMINAR JUN 18, 2025: In this conversation between Dr. Gabriel A. Cruz and Dr. Chris McAuley, they explore how contemporary speculative fiction constructs Latinidad in ways that advance humanizing depictions of Latinx people, as well as those cases where narratives reinforce reductive understandings about Latinidad.

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