„DOSŤ SOM SA NABEHAL PO SVETE.“ POHĽADY SLOVENSKÝCH REEMIGRANTOV PO ROKU 1989

• Authors: Babinčáková Martina

Title variants

EN

“I have been running around the world enough.” The viewpoints of Slovak re-emigrants after 1989

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

This study is partially based on previous research focused on the idea of home among “ordinary” politically inactive emigrants who left Czechoslovakia between 1968 and 1989 and decided to return for various reasons after November 1989. It examines the returns of Slovak migrants to their homeland, from which they departed during times of state socialism and returned to democracy and capitalism, through the testimonies of 9 witnesses. The presented text uses oral history to analyse the experiences of politically inactive Slovak re-emigrants with their return to their homeland, which for some had changed beyond recognition and for others had remained bitterly the same in many ways. It thus attempts to begin filling a gap that is absent in the Czech Republic thanks to theses and studies that examine the relationship of re-emigrants to society (and vice versa) after November 1989. In Slovakia, this field remains little explored.

Keywords

EN

EMIGRATION; RE-EMIGRATION; SLOVAKIA; CZECHOSLOVAKIA

• Publisher: Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Historický časopis (Historical Journal)
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 72
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 811 - 840

Contributors

author

Babinčáková Martina

• Historický ústav FF MUNI, Arne Nováka 1, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic

• https://orcid.org/0009-0009-3947-2869

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/histcaso.2024.72.4.8