Comparing expellees and Pieds-Noirs shifts analysis from migration origins to aftermath

Evidence

Since the two cases differ considerably with regard to the origins, forms, and circumstances of migration, scholars have preferred to compare them with other cases whose overall settings are deemed to be more similar. The expulsion of the Germans has been regarded as part of a broader history of ethnic cleansing and population transfers in twentieth-century Europe, stretching from the Balkan Wars (1912–13) to the Yugoslav Wars in the 1990s. The Pieds-Noirs, in turn, have mainly been analyzed in conjunction with other decolonization migrants such as those who came from Indonesia to the Netherlands in the late 1940s or the Portuguese ‘returnees’ (retornados) from Angola and Mozambique who arrived in the mid-1970s. This volume breaks away from these established patterns of analysis by comparing one of the largest instances of ethnic cleansing with the most important case of decolonization migration. It does so by shifting the focus away from the origins and forms to the aftermath of these two instances of mass migration. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 51

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Scholars had never systematically compared German Vertriebene and French Pieds-Noirs integration — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 34; Essentialized views of community overlook diaspora, hybridity, and members’ negotiated settlements and dissent — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 368; Race-making analysis needs both conceptual mapping and regional historical cases — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1722 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Essentialized views of community overlook diaspora, hybridity, and members’ negotiated settlements and dissent #corroborates (0.75) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 368
• Colonial war trauma, not current conditions, drives Pieds-Noirs’ right-wing voting #exemplifies (0.75) — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 88
• Race-making analysis needs both conceptual mapping and regional historical cases #corroborates (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1722
• Colonial displacement severs the naturalistic link between birthplace and cultural identity. #expands (0.72) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1191