Essentializing Ethnicity : Expellees and Ethno-National Categorizations in the European Postwar Moment, 1943-1948
Abstract
This article introduces an ongoing project that examines a key aspect of the transition from war to uneasy peace in the aftermath of WWII in Europe: the ethno-national categorizations of the expellees forcibly transported across inter-state borders as national minorities. It argues that the level of ethno-national homogeneity between incoming expellees and more established population groups in the ‘postwar moment’ has been exaggerated. In fact, this period witnessed a complex process of redefining and renegotiating the bounds of the postwar national community in which ethno-national categories were contested and whose consequences were far-ranging, both immediately and in the longer term.
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Articles
Research article
Published
2024
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Publication in research information system
Publisher
Suomalainen tiedeakatemia
The permanent address of the publication
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202406194797Käytä tätä linkitykseen.
Review status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
2953-9048
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57048/aasf.141549
Language
English
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Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae
Citation
- Ahonen, P. (2024). Essentializing Ethnicity : Expellees and Ethno-National Categorizations in the European Postwar Moment, 1943-1948. Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, 2024(1), 10-23. https://doi.org/10.57048/aasf.141549
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