МИГРАЦИИТЕ В КОЛЕКТИВНАТА ПАМЕТ НА НЯКОЛКО АРМЕНСКИ РОДА
MIGRATION IN THE COLLECTIVE MEMORY OF SEVERAL ARMENIAN CLANS IN BULGARIA
Author(s): Zhorzheta Nazarska, Sevo YavashchevSubject(s): History, Social Sciences, Sociology, Oral history, Demography and human biology, Migration Studies, Ethnic Minorities Studies, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Институт за балканистика с Център по тракология - Българска академия на науките
Keywords: migrations of the Armenian diaspora; collective memory of migration; types of migrations; migrants’ integration strategies; clan’s collective memory; historical narrative of migration;
Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the migrations of the Armenian diaspora in the 19-20th centuries and particularly with the collective memory of migration, reflected in an unpublished manuscript of Dr. Magardich Melkonyan of Bourgas. It was completed in 1989, preserved in a private archive, and provided to the authors by his heirs.The aims of the paper are: to analyze the types of migrations of several Armenian clans from the Asia Minor and the Eastern Thrace to Bulgaria; to study migrants’ integration strategies; to analyze clan’s collective memory, construction of the historical narrative of migration, its oral and written transmission through the generations, and methods of preservation of ethnic identity.The paper uses an interdisciplinary approach based on genealogy, prosopography, microhistory, social history, social demography, diasporic studies and research on memory studies. The methodology includes content analysis, prosopographical analysis, socio-demographic analysis and genealogy analysis of the manuscript. Its content is supplemented by an interview with one of the heirs of the family.
Journal: БАЛКАНИ
- Issue Year: 6/2017
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 49-60
- Page Count: 12
- Language: Bulgarian
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