States choose between making displaced groups invisible or officially visible.

Evidence

The role the state and public authorities have played in the cultivation of the two groups’ cultural heritage varies considerably: pied-noir commemorations tend to reflect a fraught relationship with political and religious authorities; the West German Law on Refugees and Exiles of 1953, by contrast, provides the Vertriebene with the legal right to state-supported preservation and promotion of their cultural heritage. While the ‘post-Algerian’ French state sought to keep the repatriates ‘invisible’ by rapidly integrating them socio-economically, the FRG arranged to sustain expellees’ visibility. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 93

Categorization

• XREF: Links to reader’s solidarity-research angle: state policy shapes whether a grievance group’s identity is scaffolded or dissolved, affecting whether solidarity decays. — connects to: Erasing a group’s past erases its claim on the nation-state

Broader Connections

• Erasing a group’s past erases its claim on the nation-state #expands (0.80)