"We had to run away": The Lovara's departure from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to Slovakia in 1939
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F22%3A10446915" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/22:10446915 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=l8KaFSSbg0" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=l8KaFSSbg0</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/rs.2022.3" target="_blank" >10.3828/rs.2022.3</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
"We had to run away": The Lovara's departure from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to Slovakia in 1939
Original language description
This article focuses on the departure of the Lovára from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to Slovakia upon Czechoslovakia's disintegration in 1939. Based on a combination of archival research and oral history methods, it shows the Lovára's departure in the context of the contemporaneous measures and efforts of the state administration to limit the mobility of "nomadic Gypsies" in the Czech lands, continuous throughout the pre-war period, and to stoke anti-Gypsy sentiments which were politically supported and growing in the society of the time. This description is enriched by the perspectives of participants - narrations of Roms who were perceived as "nomads" and witnessed these events. The study opens epistemic dilemmas of how to determine the category of Lovára in the available archival sources as well as how to speak about the Lovára in a historical context without essentializing this category. The author reconstructs the presence of the Lovára's stay in the Czech lands during the First Republic from gendarme reports and other state administration documents and submits evidence of mobility of the Lovára in Czechia in the interwar decades. Their presence terminated upon Czechoslovakia's disintegration in 1939 when the Lovára and other Roms of Slovak home affiliation had to relocate themselves from the protectorate to Slovakia. The author analyses the circumstances and the course of the departure of Lovára and other Romani families from the Czech lands to Slovakia on the eve of the Second World War and presents the narrators' reflections on the sudden departure and subsequent peripeteia of individual families in Slovakia during the war.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60500 - Other Humanities and the Arts
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GX19-26638X" target="_blank" >GX19-26638X: Genocide, Postwar Migration and Social Mobility: Entangled Experiences of Roma and Jews</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Romani Studies
ISSN
1528-0748
e-ISSN
1757-2274
Volume of the periodical
2022
Issue of the periodical within the volume
32
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
33
Pages from-to
51-83
UT code for WoS article
000818578900001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85134662907