Ukrainian Otherlands: Diaspora, Homeland and Folk Imagination in the Twentieth Century by Natalia Khanenko-Friesen Natalia

What happens when people leave their homelands in search of a better life? How do decisions aimed at the avoidance of danger or the improvement of well-being shape people’s identities, change their memory of the places they left, and form the image of the places they have come to? These questions ar...

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Main Author: Mariia Shuvalova
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy 2018-11-01
Series:Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal
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Online Access:http://kmhj.ukma.edu.ua/article/view/150404/149541
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Summary:What happens when people leave their homelands in search of a better life? How do decisions aimed at the avoidance of danger or the improvement of well-being shape people’s identities, change their memory of the places they left, and form the image of the places they have come to? These questions are ambiguous; being issues, important in spheres such as philosophy, psychology, anthropology, sociology, economy, and law. They are also the subject of Natalia Khanenko-Friesen’s study Ukrainian Otherlands: Diaspora, Homeland, and Folk Imagination in the Twentieth Century.
ISSN:2313-4895