Forced migrants in Nordic historiographies
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| Názov: | Forced migrants in Nordic historiographies |
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| Autori: | Tervonen, Miika, Frøland, Hans Otto, Hoffman, Christhard, Jalagin, Seija, Jønsson, Heidi Vad, Leinonen, Johanna, Thor Tureby, Malin |
| Zdroj: | Digitaliseringens etik. Föreställningar om Förintelsesamlingars sårbarhet Minne och aktivism. De överlevandes roll i kunskapsproduktionen om Förintelsen Forced Migrants in Nordic Histories. :45-90 |
| Predmety: | Migration, forced migrants, forced migration, refugees, migrants, historiography, Nordic countries |
| Popis: | The chapter provides the first comparative analysis of forced migrants in the Nordic historiographical traditions. Research outside the Nordic context has pointed to silences and blind spots regarding forced migrants, who have appeared as anomalies in nation-state-centric historiography. To what extent does a hypothesis of silences hold in the case of the Nordic countries? The chapter analyses relevant research in history and related fields in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden that covers the period from early modern times to the present. While highlighting the scale and complexity of histories of forced migration in the Nordic region, the overview finds highly patchy national research fields well into the 1990s, with forced migrants rarely in the focus and often subsumed into general migration or labor history. After the Second World War, specific groups such as Jewish refugees or Karelian “evacuees” received some scholarly attention, with critical research questioning self-celebratory national narratives particularly from 1970s onward. Yet major publications appeared as exceptions to an overall rule of silence and were often written outside the profession of history. Only from the 1990s onward has there been a sustained historical interest, reflecting contemporary debates on immigration and human rights. Expansion of research has been accompanied with diversifying methodological and theoretical approaches and a shift of focus towards the perspectives, agency, and specific experiences of forced migrants. |
| Popis súboru: | electronic |
| Prístupová URL adresa: | https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-78757 https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-32-3 |
| Databáza: | SwePub |
Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstrakt: | The chapter provides the first comparative analysis of forced migrants in the Nordic historiographical traditions. Research outside the Nordic context has pointed to silences and blind spots regarding forced migrants, who have appeared as anomalies in nation-state-centric historiography. To what extent does a hypothesis of silences hold in the case of the Nordic countries? The chapter analyses relevant research in history and related fields in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden that covers the period from early modern times to the present. While highlighting the scale and complexity of histories of forced migration in the Nordic region, the overview finds highly patchy national research fields well into the 1990s, with forced migrants rarely in the focus and often subsumed into general migration or labor history. After the Second World War, specific groups such as Jewish refugees or Karelian “evacuees” received some scholarly attention, with critical research questioning self-celebratory national narratives particularly from 1970s onward. Yet major publications appeared as exceptions to an overall rule of silence and were often written outside the profession of history. Only from the 1990s onward has there been a sustained historical interest, reflecting contemporary debates on immigration and human rights. Expansion of research has been accompanied with diversifying methodological and theoretical approaches and a shift of focus towards the perspectives, agency, and specific experiences of forced migrants. |
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| DOI: | 10.33134/HUP-32-3 |