Shared memory of loss, not just material interests, binds refugee groups together.

Evidence

Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs not only constituted pressure groups with shared socio-economic interests and needs. They also conceived of themselves as communities whose members were bound together by shared historical experience. Thus, memories referring to their lost ‘homeland’ and forced departure, the cultivation of a common heritage and vision of the past were constitutive of their cohesion as socio-political groups. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 91

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s existing work on solidarity and manufactured enemies: adds memory/identity as a cohesion mechanism alongside shared grievance. — connects to: Refugee trauma can be re-triggered by landscapes of resettlement that evoke remembered atrocity. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 648

Broader Connections

• Refugee trauma can be re-triggered by landscapes of resettlement that evoke remembered atrocity. #qualifies (0.78) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 648