MACEDONIAN AND GREEK REFUGEE CHILDREN IN EASTERN EUROPE: LANGUAGE, POLITICS AND IDENTITIES

Main Article Content

Riki Van Boeschoten

Abstract

The paper uses life stories and archival evidence to explore the relations between Macedonian and Greek refugee children who escaped the violence of the Greek Civil War and grew up in children’s homes in Eastern Europe. More in particular it examines the dominant role of the Greek Communist Party on the refugees’ lives, the organization of Macedonian-language education and the tensions created by the anti-Tito campaign launched by the Cominform countries. It discusses the short-lived establishment of an autonomous Macedonian organization in Poland during the early 1960s. And finally it analyzes the oral memories of both Greek and Macedonian refugee children about their mutual – largely harmonious - relations. The paper argues that the recovery of such memories in light of contemporary conflicts between the two countries might be an important resource for the future.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Article Details

How to Cite
Boeschoten, Riki. 2021. “MACEDONIAN AND GREEK REFUGEE CHILDREN IN EASTERN EUROPE: LANGUAGE, POLITICS AND IDENTITIES”. EthnoAnthropoZoom/ЕтноАнтропоЗум 19 (18-19), 9-55. https://doi.org/10.37620/EAZ1918-1909b.
Section
Articles / Статии

References

Abrams, Lynn. 2016. Oral History Theory. 2nd ed. London, New York: Routledge.

Appadurai, Arjun. 1996. Modernity at Large. Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Danforth, Loring. 1995. The Macedonian Conflict. Ethnic Nationalism in a Transnational World. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Danforth Loring and Riki Van Boeschoten. 2012. Children of the Greek Civil War. Refugees and the Politics of Memory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

.Денфорт, лоринг & рики ван бусхотен. 2015. Децата на граѓанската војна во грција. Бегалците и политиката на сеќабањето. Skopje: Foundation Open Society Macedonia.

Eastmond, Marita. 2007. Stories as Lived Experience: Narratives in Forced Migration Research, Journal of Refugee Studies 20(2): 248-264.

Kiriazovski, Risto 1985. Народно-ослободителниот Фронт и другите организации на македонците од Егејска Македонија (1945-1949) [NOF, National Liberation Front and Other Organizations of the Macedonians from Aegean Macedonia, 1945-1949]. Skopje.

Kiriazovski, Risto. 1987. Македонски национални институции во Егејскиот дел на Македонија [Macedonian National Institutions in Aegean Macedonia (1941-1961)]. Skopje.

Kiriazovski, Risto. 1989. Македонската политичка емиграција од Егејскиот дел на Македонија во источноевропските земји по Втората Светска Војна [The Macedonian Political Emigrants from Aegean Macedonia to Eastern Europe after World War II], Skopje.

Kiriazovski, Risto & Simovski Todor (eds). 1980. ЕГЕЈСКА МАКЕДОНИЈА ВО НОБ. 1947. vol. IV, Skopje: АРХИВ НА МАКЕДОНИЈА.

Kofos, Evangelos. 1964. Nationalism and Communism in Macedonia. Salonica: Institute for Balkan Studies.

Kofos, Evangelos. 1995. “The Impact of the Macedonian Question on Civil Conflict in Greece, 1943-1949”, in: Greece at the Crossroads. The Civil War and its Legacy, edited by John O. Iatrides and Linda Wrigley, Pennsylvania State University Press.

Koufis, Pavlos. 1996. Λαογραφικά Φλώρινας και Καστοριάς (Folklore of Florina and Kastoria). Athens.

Malkki, Lisa. 1992. National Geographic: The Rooting of Peoples and the Territorialization of National Identity among Scholars and Refugees, Cultural Anthropology 7(1), 24-44.

Malkki, Lisa. 1995. Refugees and Exile: From "Refugee Studies" to the National Order of Things, Annual Review of Anthropology 24 (1995), 495-523.

Malkki, Lisa 1996. Speechless Emissaries: Refugees, Humanitarianism and Dehistoricization, Cultural Anthropology 11 (3), 377–404.

Martinova-Buchkova, Fana. 1998. И ние сме деца на Мајката Земја [We too are Children of the Motherland], Skopje.

Van Boeschoten, Riki. 1999. «Politicised borders: The Case of Greek Macedonia.» In:, Nationalising and Denationalising European Border Regions, 1800-2000, H.Knippenberg & J.Markusse eds. Amsterdam: Kluwers, 83-106.

Van Boeschoten, Riki. 2000. The Impossible Return: Coping with Separation and the Reconstruction of Memory in the Wake of the Civil War, in: After the War was Over: Reconstructing the Family, Nation and State in Greece, 1943-1960. Ed. Mark Mazower. Princeton 2000, 122-141.

Van Boeschoten, Riki. 2010. “From ‘Janissaries’ to ‘Hooligans’: Greek and Macedonian Refugee Children in Communist Hungary”. In Remembering Communism. Genres of Representation, edited by Maria Todorova, 155-186. NewYork, Social Science Research Council.

Verdery, Catherine. 1996. What was Socialism and What Comes Next? Princeton, Princeton University Press.

Vragoterov, Kostas. 1962. Хронологија од животот и дејноста на политичките емигранти од Егејскиот дел на Македонија во НР Полска за годините од 1950 до 1962. Unpublished manuscript.

Zerubavel, Eviatar. 2010. ‘The Social Sound of Silence: Toward a Sociology of Denial’, in Efrat Ben-Ze’ev, Ruth Ginio, and Jay Winter, eds., Shadows of War. A Social History of Silence in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 32-44.