Bodily Memory: Introducing Immigrant Organisations and the Family

Autor(en)

Machteld Venken

Abstrakt

This is an article about war survivors who ended up in migration in the aftermath of World War II: former Division soldiers from Poland and former Ostarbeiterinnen from the Soviet Union who settled in Belgium. It analyzes how these migrants dealt in their post-war lives with experiences of harm to their bodies undergone during the war. Often, attempts to ascribe meaning to the physical and/or psychological remnants of this harm were not made through words, but through non-verbal performances. However, such bodily memory could also, consciously or not, become socialized. In this article, I investigate the performance of bodily memory over time within two of the migrants' social entities: immigrant organizations and families, focusing in particular on their interaction.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Osteuropäische Geschichte

Journal

The History of the Family

Band

14

Seiten

150-164

Anzahl der Seiten

15

ISSN

1081-602X

Publikationsdatum

2009

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

601022 Zeitgeschichte, 504021 Migrationsforschung

Schlagwörter

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/cce2e347-b207-4fe1-a1ef-c4e2ad74e570