Lietuvių transmigrantų identitetų konstravimo modeliai : lūkesčiai ir realybė

Abstract

Compared to the current wave of economic emigration, Lithuania experiences infrequent repatriation, or "return-home" phenomenon". My interest is mainly in the political wave of emigrants, who retreated from Lithuania to the Central Europe during World War II, stayed at the "displaced persons" camps and then moved to the West. For 50 years, they were clearly defined as diaspora, exile people (they expressed the same social memory and articulated the same Lithuanian identity, based on the enculturation in the Saturday Lithuanian school, songs festivals, and preservation of traditions). The data for this presentation were collected during 2005, using anthropological field research methods.[...]