The topic of the present undergraduate thesis is forced migration with an emphasis on the experience of political prisoners, concretely in the Austrian half of Austria-Hungary during the First World War. The purpose of the undergraduate thesis is to describe the concept of forced migration in a more general way, to give the historical context of Slovenian political prisoners, especially Pan-Slavic intellectuals, during the First World War in Austria-Hungary, and to analyze the reasons for their internment and treatment. The second part also describes the personal experience of the former mayor of Ljubljana Ivan Hribar, who spent several years of the war forcibly emigrated to the Austrian village of Abtenau. His story gives us a personal insight into the experience of a political prisoner.
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