Forging Transnational Connections: The Role of the UNRA University and the Baltic University shaping Potwar Educational Landscapes
Journal: Historia y Memoria de la Educación
Year: 2025

This article aims to address a gap in the historiography of the higher education of displaced persons (DPs) by analysing the efforts of forced migrants from the Baltic States to reconstruct higher education in exile. It focuses on the establishment and evolution of the UNRRA University and the Baltic University, two significant educational institutions created for DPs in postwar Europe. Through a comparative analysis, the study underscores the role of education in shaping transnational identitie