Dr. Zuzana Palovic is 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.
In this episode, we talk about all things related to Czech and Slovak migration in the late 19th, 20th, and 21st century. 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 migration changed in 2004 with the EU enlargement that would include Slovakia, the Czech R., Poland, Hungary, the Baltic countries, and others. Please enjoy.
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