Pakkomuuttojen uhrit ja etno-kansalliset kategorisoinnit Euroopassa, 1943-1948 (ExpCat)
Päärahoittaja
Rahoittajan antama koodi/diaarinumero: 339500
Päärahoittajan myöntämä tuki (€)
- 480 181,00
Rahoitusohjelma
Hankkeen aikataulu
Hankkeen aloituspäivämäärä: 01.09.2021
Hankkeen päättymispäivämäärä: 31.08.2025
Tiivistelmä
Our project examines fundamental aspects of Europe’s immediate post-World War II settlement whose long-term legacies and implications extend to the present. We analyze the ethno-national categorization of the population groups labelled ‘expellees’, i.e. refugees expelled across emerging inter-state borders as national minorities, whose numbers swelled to 18 million and who assumed particular significance within wider blueprints of reconstruction. We investigate the complex ways in which the co-ethnicity and national belonging of expellees was defined, negotiated and perceived as a key component of nation (re-)building. Chronologically, we focus on the ‘postwar moment’, a crucial transitional phase between ca. late 1943 and 1948, which we view not only as a sequel or a prequel to momentous events, but as a brief epoch of indeterminacy and possibility that has left many long-term traces in post-1945 Europe. Our analysis focuses on the collision of two sets of imperatives in the classification and treatment of expellees. Powerful homogenizing forces, primarily from above, sought to impose exclusive ethno-national labels on them, with the goal of building homogeneous nation states. Meanwhile, complicated dynamics prevailed among the expellees themselves: some felt a strong affiliation with their purported nation, while others lacked or resisted exclusive national allegiances, at least initially, having hitherto lived in multi-ethnic borderlands where regional identities often trumped or at least challenged national allegiances. The result was complicated and prolonged tension and conflict on the ground in the emerging post-1945 polities as the authorities and the population, both newly arrived expellees and more established residents, engaged in complex processes of redefining and renegotiating the boundaries of the postwar national community. We analyze these processes with an interdisciplinary research team that employs a comparative, transnational and intersectional framework, manifest in four closely co-ordinated case studies that draw on an extensive primary source base and foreground frequently neglected, experiential grassroots perspectives. We connect national cases, highlight their similarities and differences, and open new transnational and comparative perspectives on Europe’s early postwar era. We also challenge inward-looking national historiographies and myths of national singularity and homogeneity whose effects extend to the present.
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Seurantakohteet
Profiloitumisalue: Hyvinvoinnin tutkimuksen yhteisö (Jyväskylän yliopisto JYU) JYU.Well
Liittyvät julkaisut ja muut tuotokset
- Book Review : J. Schönhagen u.a. (Hrsg.): Migration und Migrationspolitik in Europa 1945–2020 (2024) Ahonen, Pertti; B1; OA
- Lähteneet ja jääneet : muistamisen ja vaikenemisen historiaa Italian koillisella rajaseudulla (2024) Parvikko, Tuija; B1; OA
- Eichmann-kiistan vanhat ja uudet suunnat (2022) Parvikko, Tuija; E1; OA
- Historiaa, politiikkaa ja historiapolitiikkaa Italiassa : taistelu Vastarinnan ja ”natsifasismista” vapautumisen muistamisesta toisen maailmansodan jälkeen (2022) Parvikko, Tuija; A1; OA