Entangled or 'Extruded' Histories? Displacement, National Refugees, and Repatriation after the Second World War

Ballinger, Pamela

doi:10.1093/jrs/fes022

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“…21 As Pamela Ballinger has demonstrated, European and colonial displacements which have been retrospectively bracketed off from one another, 'not only run on parallel tracks but cross and entangle at many points.' 22 This was true of the Armenian repatriation campaign. Civil war in Greece, the stirrings of decolonization in Syria and Lebanon and the crisis in Northern Iran all helped shape Armenian decisions to resettle in the Soviet Union.…”

Section: The Post-war World: Resources and Reconstructions And Repatrmentioning

confidence: 98%

Belongings: People and Possessions in the Armenian Repatriations, 1945–49

Laycock¹

2017

Kritika

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The term 'nerkaght'-in-migration-is also used to describe this process. Armenian repatriates were drawn from a wide range of backgrounds. 5 Ninety percent of those who registered to repatriate in Syria and Lebanon in 1946 were said to be 'needy', unable to repatriate without financial support. 6 The better off, in contrast, were able plan and provision carefully, and the contents of their cases reflected their hopes, fears and expectations. In France, Jean Der Sarkissian watched as his family's savings disappeared into wooden crates. They packed sixteen cases, mostly with practical items, such as his mother's sewing machine and his bicycle. That they also packed 'emergency' provisions such as a twenty-five liter carton of sugar, 'just in case' is suggestive of underlying uncertainties regarding their future. 7 Life in the Soviet homeland did not go smoothly for the Der Sarkissian family, nor for thousands of others. Far from the bountiful land promised in propaganda, repatriates were faced with poor housing, shortages, poverty and isolation. They were also subject to the political repressions of the late-Stalin period, repatriates were also among the 12,000 Armenians targeted in deportations in the South Caucasus during operation Volna in 1949. 8 Given these circumstances, many chose to leave as soon as the Soviet authorities permitted, following the death of Stalin. 9 In the short 5

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Section: The Post-war World: Resources and Reconstructions And Repatrmentioning

confidence: 98%

Belongings: People and Possessions in the Armenian Repatriations, 1945–49

Laycock¹

2017

Kritika

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“…Upoštevajoč priporočila Barbare Bender sem zbrala pripovedi ljudi ali prebrala njihove potopise, ki govorijo o Parenzani, ki jo lahko preučujemo s pomočjo koncepta spornih krajin ali »krajin v gibanju«, preseljevanja, izgnanstva in vračanja domov (Bender 2001b, 1) ter koncepta »zapletene« oz. »ekstrudirane« zgodovine (Ballinger 2012). Pojem zapletena oz.…”

Section: Mobilna Etnografska Praksa Sporna Krajina Ter Razbiranje Par...unclassified

Parenzana – Pot zdravja in prijateljstva: antropološko-geografski pogledi na revitalizacijo poti po nekdanji trasi ozkotirne železnice Trst–Poreč

Janko Spreizer

2023

Geografsko Raziskovanje Slovenske Istre 2

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Pot zdravja in prijateljstva je zadnjih nekaj desetletij znana predvsem kot Parenzana, ki je predstavljena tudi kot pot treh dežel, Italije, Slovenije in Hrvaške (Brate 2007). Procese vzpostavitve, uveljavljanja, rahlega zatona ter ponovne oživitve predstavljamo skozi koncept življenjskega cikla tematske poti (Gornik 2015, 13−14; Koderman idr. 2021). Kljub temu da je v slovenskem geografskem prostoru ustaljenejši izraz »pokrajina«, metodološko izhajam iz »antropologije krajine« oz. iz »antropologije prostora in kraja«, kjer se izraz landscape v slovenščino prevaja kot krajina, pri čemer sledim konceptualizaciji, kot jo opisuje antropolog in geograf Matej Vranješ (2005; 2008, 16). Vranješ je pojma kulturna in naravna krajina ter različne konceptualizacije družbenega prostora analiziral v socialni in kulturni antropologiji ter humanistični geografiji in »novi kulturni geografiji«. V geografiji je v slovenskem prostoru sicer ustaljenejši izraz pokrajina. V prispevku uporabljam izraz krajina, kadar izhajam iz omenjene antropološke poddiscipline ter antropoloških avtorjev. Na nekaterih mestih sledim sugestijam recenzentov, zato v splošni rabi pišem o pokrajini in s tem upoštevam prevladujočo rabo med geografi, na katero sta opozarjala recenzenta. Prispevek izhaja iz terenskega dela z opazovanjem z udeležbo. Besedilo se delno veže na biografije sogovornikov, s katerimi sem sprva izvedla več spontanih, nestrukturiranih pogovorov, o katerih sem naredila zvočne beležke, pozneje pa sem z nekaterimi izmed sogovornikov posnela poglobljene intervjuje za namen raziskovanja Parenzane kot »sporne dediščine« na območju Istre. Parenzano poj-

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“…For her, the question remains open "whether these repatriates constitute an example of forced migration that would allow us to consider them refugees of a particular sort, even if they do fall outside of the categories of the [1951] Convention." 281 Considering that the only defining characteristic on which all analysts agree is that the refugee is an individual who has been coerced to leave, deciding on the returnees' status ultimately comes down to a simple question: Why did they leave? 282 The answer, however, is not as straightforward as the question.…”

Section: (Almost) No Refugees Under International Law: the Unhcr In P...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Postcolonial People

Kalter¹

2022

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Having built much of their wealth, power, and identities on imperial expansion, how did the Portuguese and, by extension, Europeans deal with the end of empire? Postcolonial People explores the processes and consequences of decolonization through the histories of over half a million Portuguese settlers who 'returned' following the 1974 Carnation Revolution from Angola, Mozambique, and other parts of Portugal's crumbling empire to their country of origin and citizenship, itself undergoing significant upheaval. Looking comprehensively at the returnees' history and memory for the first time, this book contributes to debates about colonial racism and its afterlives. It studies migration, 'refugeeness,' and integration to expose an apparent paradox: The end of empire and the return migrations it triggered belong to a global history of the twentieth century and are shaped by transnational dynamics. However, they have done nothing to dethrone the primacy of the nation-state. If anything, they have reinforced it.

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Entangled or 'Extruded' Histories? Displacement, National Refugees, and Repatriation after the Second World War

Cited by 25 publications

References 14 publications

Belongings: People and Possessions in the Armenian Repatriations, 1945–49

Belongings: People and Possessions in the Armenian Repatriations, 1945–49

Parenzana – Pot zdravja in prijateljstva: antropološko-geografski pogledi na revitalizacijo poti po nekdanji trasi ozkotirne železnice Trst–Poreč

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