Successful economic integration did not dissolve expellee political communities organized around lost-homeland grievance

Evidence

Yet their national belonging was never officially questioned. Both states considered them as ‘nationals’ and assisted them with effective institutional help and vast financial support, making their socio-economic integration an often overlooked aspect of the expansion of postwar European welfare states. However, despite their successful socio-economic integration, expellees and repatriates alike formed distinct communities and founded their own organizations, which soon became important political factors and electoral pressure groups. Their memories of the lost homelands east of the Oder–Neisse line and south of the Carpathian Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea caused tensions on a national and even international level, and painfully reminded their fellow citizens of failed imperial projects and mass violence. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 33

Categorization

• XREF: Core to the reader’s question: solidarity persisted via the unmet-grievance engine of lost homelands even after material integration — directly parallels the BHE dynamic flagged in the reading purpose. — connects to: Economic success did not erode expellees’ attachment to their lost homeland — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East: Forced Migration…, 104; Integration myths both obscured and drove postwar absorption of expellees — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 104; Shared ethnicity does not guarantee shared politics among a diaspora (+1 more)
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: did these organizations’ cohesion decay once the homeland grievance lost political salience (post-1970 Ostpolitik), as the BHE case suggests?

Broader Connections

• Return-homeland promises to expellees sapped their will to integrate economically #qualifies (0.80) — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 382
• Shared ethnicity does not guarantee shared politics among a diaspora #expands (0.75)