On Czech & Slovak Migration, with Dr. Zuzana Palovic

On the latest episode of “Loosely Eastern Europe,” I talk to Dr. Zuzana Palovic, an author, scholar, and the founder and co-director of Global Slovakia — an NGO dedicated to creating unique and bilingual content that communicates Slovakia’s story to a wider international audience, including its diaspora around the Globe.

I thought that I would once again bring your attention to the podcast, as I know many of you will be interested.

Here is a link to the interview on Spotify; and here is a link to the interview on Substack. Let me know in the comment section if you are having difficulties accessing it.

Photo by Sébastien Goldberg on Unsplash

Summary of Podcast Episode

In this episode, we talk about all things related to Czech and Slovak migration in the late 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.

First, we talk about Dr. Palovic’s own experience as a refugee from Czechoslovakia in the 1980s coming to Canada.

Then we talk about the various waves of Slovak and Czech migration to the New World before the founding of the First Czechoslovak Republic and after during Nazi and Soviet tutelage.

Lastly, we look at how that changed in 2004 with the EU enlargement that would include Slovakia, the Czech R., Poland, Hungary, the Baltic countries…