“Latvia Will Always Be My Home”: Latvian Emigrants in Sweden After 1991 in the Latvian National Oral History Collection

• Authors: Ginta Elksne

Title variants

“Latvia Will Always Be My Home”: Latvian Emigrants in Sweden After 1991 in the Latvian National Oral History Collection

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

PL

Latvians are one of the most mobile European nations. Latvian migration to Sweden has a long history. After the II World War, more than 4,000 people moved from Latvia to Sweden, fleeing Soviet power. The second wave of immigration to Sweden began with the restoration of Latvian independence in 1991 and continues to this day. Both of these waves of migration are documented in the Latvian National Oral History collection. This article analyzes life-story interviews with expatriates in Sweden after the restoration of independence and explores how the migrants themselves describe their experiences in their new home country, their reflections on Latvians, Latvianness, and the preservation of national identity in emigration. 

Keywords

EN

oral history; emigration; Latvia; Sweden

PL

oral history; emigracja; Łotwa; Szwecja; oral history; emigracja; Łotwa; Szwecja

• Publisher: Ośrodek „Pamięć i Przyszłość”
• Journal: Wrocławski Rocznik Historii Mówionej
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 9
• Pages: 79-94

Dates

published

2020-06-26

Contributors

author

Ginta Elksne

• Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii, Uniwersytet Łotewski, Łotwa

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1011-3351

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Identifiers

DOI

10.26774/wrhm.254