Language:
English
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Symbolic Interaction
Angaben zur Quelle:
25,2 (2002) 175-198
Keywords:
Antisemitism
;
Jews, Russian
;
Jews, Russian
;
Immigrants Social conditions
;
Immigrant absorption
;
Germany Emigration and immigration
;
Former Soviet republics Emigration and immigration
Abstract:
Explores the relationship between recollection and relocation in the context of immigration, based on interviews with 89 young immigrants from the former USSR (mainly Russia and Ukraine) in Israel and Germany. Analysis of their narratives reveals that they tend to "normalize" their antisemitic experiences by representing them as secondary and expected. They do so via four narration tactics: obscuring, self-exclusion, vindication, and essentializing stigma. Each tactic devalues the cultural depiction of antisemitic experiences as transformative and traumatic. By normalizing their past, the immigrants deconstruct and resist the authority of the national narrative the immigrants encountered in both societies; they construct their own cultural identity.
Note:
On immigrants in Israel and Germany.
DOI:
10.1525/si.2002.25.2.175
URL:
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