Cesta za snem či lepším životem? Obrazy "návratů" potomků řeckých emigrantů z Československa zpět do země předků

• Authors: Filip Maroši

Title variants

EN

A journey towards a dream or a better life? Images of the “returns” of descendants of Greek emigrants to the land of their ancestors from Czechoslovakia

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

At the end of the 1940s, a wave of many thousands of Greek refugees fled their country, which was torn by civil war, for Czechoslovakia. Around thirty years later, there was a political change in Greece that allowed the refugees to return to their homeland. In the meantime, however, a new generation of Greeks had grown up in Czechoslovakia who did not remember their parents’ country and had never even visited. This article is situated within the theoretical framework of research on return migration. It traces the differences in the presentation of narratives on motivations to migrate back “home” of those who migrated. It also addresses the research field of transnationalism, and the author inquires into whether the narrators maintain any form of cross-border ties to the country from which they migrated.

Keywords

EN

return migration; ethnic return migration; Greeks; transnationalism; integration; ethnic minority

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal)
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 111
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 3-26
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Filip Maroši

• Český lid, redakce, Etnologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic