Vojvodovská imigrace z ČSR, aneb (Nejen) Vojvodovský Čech Karel Konupka
Immigration from Interwar Czechoslovakia to Voyvodovo, or: Karel Konupka, the Czech of Voyvodovo
Author(s): Marek JakoubekSubject(s): Anthropology, Sociology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Migration Studies, History of Sciences
Published by: Porta Balkanica, z. s.
Keywords: Vojvodovo; Bulgaria; Czech compatriots; migration;
Summary/Abstract: The article presents an annotated collection of the memoirs of Miroslav Konupka (*1945), son of Karel Konupka (1906–1979), who was one of the only two Czechs who came to live in the Bulgarian “Czech” village of Voyvodovo as “foreigners”, from Czechoslovakia. After having arrived here in 1931, K. Konupka established himself as the village saddler and prospered. However, in 1941, as a foreign citizen, he was forced to leave Bulgaria and return to the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, never to come back to Voyvodovo. Within the context of studies of Voyvodovo, the example of K. Konupka represents a heretofore undescribed type of migration: from “the mother state” to a community of compatriots. M. Konupka’s memoirs are supplemented with explanatory notes and a brief concluding analysis of their contents.
Journal: Porta Balkanica
- Issue Year: 8/2016
- Issue No: 02
- Page Range: 57-66
- Page Count: 10
- Language: Czech
