Negotiating Transnational Belonging
Post-WWII Migration as Life Experience and Collective Memory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11048871 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniela Koleva (0000-0002-9324-4033, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 782-804 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nationalities Papers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/nps.2023.87 |
| OpenAlex | W4389737577 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 34 |
This article explores the subjective experience of nationality and (trans)national belonging based on biographical interviews with two groups of Jewish participants born in Bulgaria before the Second World War, and residing in Bulgaria and in Israel, respectively. I focus on their retrospective accounts of the mass exodus to Israel in 1948–1949 and the maintenance of transnational family and kinship ties thereafter, during the Cold War. The comparison brings into relief the challenges of their integration into the respective national contexts, and the ways in which the memory cultures in the two countries have molded biographical reminiscences. I argue that despite these differences, a unique case of a transnational generation is at hand, formed by their past experiences as well as by the re-negotiation of these experiences, which was made possible from the 1990s on
Cold war · Collective memory · Immigration · Judaism · Kinship · Mass migration · Nationality · Negotiation · Political science · Social science · Sociology · The Holocaust · World War II · Anthropology · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Gender Studies · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis
Voices of Collective Remembering
Belonging in the Two Berlins
Nations and Nationalism
Memory Archipelago of the Communist Past
Ruptured histories
Israel-Palestine Through a Settler-colonial Studies Lens
‘Oh motherland I pledge to thee …’
(Dis)connecting migration
Zones of interculturality and linguistic identity
Daughters’ Stories
Transnational, transborder, antinational? The memory of the Jewish past in Poland
Paradise or Just a Little Bit Better? Siberian Settlement “Fever” in Late Imperial Russia
Turkey's Jews and their immigration to Israel
The Formation of Transnational Identity among French Immigrants Employed in French‐Speaking Companies in Israel
Cultural Pluralism and the Israeli Nation-Building Ideology
Displaced in the National Home
Constructions of nation, family and gender
Migration Decision-Making and Its Key Dimensions
Reconceiving Binaries
Noncontemporaneity, Asynchronicity and Divided Memories
Collective Memory and Narrative Templates
Migration Networks and Migration Decision-Making
Revisiting the "Transnational" in Migration Studies
The Strength of Remembrance
Against the Current
Les cadres sociaux de la mémoire
The Canonical Generation
Politics of Nationhood and the Displacement of the Founding Moment
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |