Raphaela Monika Bollwein, BEd MA MEd
Doctoral researcher with the ERC research group GLORE – "Global Resettlement Regimes: Ambivalent Lessons learned from the Postwar (1945-1951)"
Contact details:
E-mail: raphaela.monika.bollwein@univie.ac.at
Curriculum Vitae and list of publications
Raphaela Monika Bollwein is a doctoral candidate and researcher at the Department of Contemporary History of the University of Vienna. Her dissertation project is part of the research project GLORE- "Global Resettlement Regimes: Ambivalent Lessons learned from the Postwar (1945-1951)". In it, she deals with the situation of unaccompanied children as displaced persons after the end of the Second World War.
The focus of the dissertation project is to identify and present the resettlement schemes that were designed and implemented by various aid organisations for unaccompanied children. The reconstruction of their migration paths offers an opportunity to document the different stages of growing up and settling into post-war societies with a view to physical and psychological rehabilitation and the goal of an independent lifestyle pursued by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) and the International Refugee Organisation (IRO). On the other hand, the tension between legal debates, official procedures and individual biographical experiences, as well as the need for protection of children, will be discussed.
Raphaela Monika Bollwein previously conducted research on National Socialist economic policy, forced labour and corporate history, as well as on post-war justice, which resulted in two master's theses. For her master's thesis entitled "Between Oblivion and Reconciliation - The SS Road and the Profit of the Construction Industry from Nazi Forced Labour with Regard to the Company Swietelsky AG", she received 2023 the Wilhelm Deist Prize of the Arbeitskreis Militärgeschichte.
Key Research Topics
- Migration and Displaced Persons
- Nazi War Economy and Forced Labour
- Nazi Post-War Justice