The cool welcome and the responses to it

Australian-Hungarians negotiate social reality in Hungary after 1989

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7802196
AutoresP Andits (0000-0001-9448-7611, Universidad de Granada, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen24
Número3
Páginas295-312
Fecha de publicación2017-05-04
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaIdentities (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1070-289X • E-ISSN: 1547-3384
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1070289x.2015.1124780
OpenAlexW2295989555
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas29

This article examines the social aspects of Australian-Hungarians’ return to Hungary after the collapse of communism. I suggest that one of the most disillusioning aspects of homecoming for this group of Australian-Hungarians was the cold welcome they received from those who had stayed behind. The main task of this article is to analyse how returnees grappled with the negative attitudes of the stayees. Three major strategies are identified by means of which returnees facilitated their feeling of belonging: contestation, acceptance or dismissal of stayees’ perspectives. Returnees’ efforts to achieve a sense of belonging suggest that the nature of national membership is fundamentally fragile and porous and underlines that self-definitions are far from being either unconditional or ascribed. By placing contrasting narratives side by side, this article draws attention to the intersubjective elements involved in defining belonging

Communism · Dismissal · Feeling · Homecoming · Literature · Narrative · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Psychology