CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Árvay, Erzsébet |
|---|---|
| Title | Movement of Conflicting Memories: The Hungarian Diaspora in Chile |
| Summary | This thesis aims at exploring the interrelations of migration memory and diasporic activities. The numerous specialties of migration studies and the borderlines between social scientists and historians often hinder the understanding of basic terminological issues of migration studies. Therefore, through a thorough theoretical overview of the underlying questions on the topic of migration and memory, two opposing arguments are presented in this thesis, the first approach considers that the analysis of the reasons and motives of migration is not crucial for understanding diasporic behavior in the recipient society. The opposing approach puts considerable emphasis on the motives of migration in analyzing diasporic activities, not taking the host society into consideration. This thesis situates itself in between the two approaches arguing that the analysis of the motives and background of migration is essential in order to understand diasporic activities, since these elements of the migration have a substantial impact on the collective memory of diasporans. However, the diasporic memory has to be scrutinized in the context of the recipient society in order to provide a careful and in-depth analysis, since the host society can trigger and activate those memories that affect the activities of diasporans. The empirical research of this thesis is based on oral history interviews conducted in the Hungarian diaspora in Santiago de Chile. The study of these interviews aims at exploring how former conflicting experience of Communism affects diasporans’ perception of the crisis situations of 1970s in Chile. As the major findings reveal, examining the motives of migration and their influence on the diasporic memory within the context of the recipient society are necessary to recognize and comprehend diasporic behavior. |
| Supervisor | Iordachi, Constantin; Tokic, Mate |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/arvay_erzsebet.pdf |
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