Migration of Roma to Western Europe Under the Iron Curtain in the Light of Memories of the Witnesses

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F24%3A10488381" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/24:10488381 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=XLo3.39cwF" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=XLo3.39cwF</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.31577/SN.2024.4.39" target="_blank" >10.31577/SN.2024.4.39</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Migration of Roma to Western Europe Under the Iron Curtain in the Light of Memories of the Witnesses

Original language description

This article applies the slow memory approach to the study of the pre-1989 migration of Roma from Czechoslovakia to the West. It focuses on reconstructing this phenomenon from memories of Romani witnesses. It analyses the ways in which the process of migration to the West was remembered, described and interpreted by the witnesses. The emigration of Roma from communist Czechoslovakia to Western Europe is almost entirely absent in Romani studies and migration studies literature, with only a few random references by some authors. There is no data about the number of Romani migrants, and, generally, the topic is very under-researched. Oral historical methods and studies of memories of Romani witnesses who emigrated to Western countries present a unique possibility with which to research this phenomenon. The concept of slow memory enables the researcher to focus on how the Roma remember sociocultural and political events in the past and how they interpret them. Their testimonies showed a variety of motifs and descriptions of events that had various coinciding elements. Using the slow memory approach thus offers new perspectives on past events, especially by considering the marginalised and under-represented perspective of the Roma, which emphasises mainly the role of kinship and social networks and the big role of Romani solidarity in these stories.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - 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

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)

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Slovenský národopis

ISSN

1335-1303

e-ISSN

1339-9357

Volume of the periodical

72

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

504-518

UT code for WoS article

001391247500007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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