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Memory, Identity and Migrant Generations: Articulating Italianità in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Northern England through the Case of Kingston upon Hull [PDF]

California Italian Studies, 2020
Owing to its geographical location and the collapse of its fishing and shipping industries, the UK city of Kingston upon Hull post-WWII rapidly acquired a reputation as a declining outpost of the British nation with no real links to the rest of the world.
Haworth, Rachel, Rorato, Laura
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Cultures of risk: On generative uncertainty and intergenerational memory in post-Yugoslav migrant narratives [PDF]

The Sociological Review, 2020
The disintegration of Yugoslavia not only marked the end of a decades-long socialist multinational project, but also reorganised former Yugoslavs’ possibilities for imagining certain futures. This article examines intergenerational narratives of rupture amongst migrant families living in Britain, showing how uncertain pasts produce distinctly diasporic
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Memory of Soviet Repressions in the Kazakhstan Lithuanian Diaspora: Interpretations, Practices, Contexts

Genocidas ir Rezistencija
In this article, the focus is on the memory of repressions in the Kazakhstan Lithuanian diaspora, a large part of which consists of the descendants of Lithuanians who were subject to repression.
Irena Šutinienė
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Doing Family Memory in the Case of Emigration Experience

Vilnius University Open Series, 2020
This chapter present the importance of memory making in migrant families lives and how emigrants ‘do’ family memory. A representative survey of Lithuanian residents shows that those with emigration experience since 1990 participate in family memory ...
Laima Žilinskienė
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FEMALE GENEALOGIES OF PLACE: NATION, CITY AND REFUGEE CAMPS IN SUSAN MUADDI DARRAJ’S "THE INHERITANCE OF EXILE"

RiCognizioni, 2016
This paper aims at analyzing the ways in which the differential treatments of human bodies that are played out in the “permanetntly exceptional” space of the refugee camps emerge in Palestinian-American author Susan Muaddi Darraj’s 2007 short story ...
Marta Cariello
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Conviviality-in-Action Of Silence and Memory in the Cultural Performance of Generations of Japanese Migrants in a Riverine Town in Brazil

, 2023
The paper describes the effects of the encounter between the Brazilian intangible cultural heritage policy and the celebration of Tooro Nagashi, a cultural practice performed by groups of Japanese descendants in the Ribeira Valley. Based on the notion of “friction”, it identifies points of engagement through which new accounts and unsuspected silences ...
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Towards a Postmemorial Performance Practice: Animating intergenerational memory in the performance practices of Indigenous and second-generation migrant artists in Australia

, 2023
This creative practice PhD identifies an emerging wave of postmemorial performance in Australia and examines the strategies employed by artists to produce postmemorial performance outcomes. US-based scholar Marianne Hirsch termed traumatic intergenerational inherited memory ‘postmemory’, describing it in relation to European historical contexts ...
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The experience of foreignness in The Double Book by Dimitris Hatzis

Cahiers Balkaniques
Dimitris Hatzis’ novel, The Double Book (1976), a work of migrant literature, is an interweave of paradigmatic stories of Greeks who emigrate and reshape their identity, after leaving behind their life in their native land.
Efi Petkou
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Calamidades del Retorno: las transmisiones intergeneracionales del exilio en familias retornadas

Mistral
Esta contribución aborda las transmisiones intergeneracionales del exilio y el retorno en familias uruguayas que huyeron de la persecución política durante la dictadura de los años setenta y ochenta y que regresaron entre 1985 y 1989.
Gabriela Fried Amilivia
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From diaspora to “imagined minority”. Memories of persecution and the cross-generational transformation of Protestant migrant networks in early modern Europe

Diasporas, 2018
Most early modern religious diaspora groups in Europe cultivated narratives of persecution and martyrdom and handed them on to future generations. Yet the function of such narratives changed in each migrant generation. Focusing on printed publications of Netherlandish exile communities in Germany and the Northern Netherlands, this article argues that ...
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