Petra Košťálová
Návrat „domů“
Číslo: 1/2023
Periodikum: Historická sociologie
DOI: 10.14712/23363525.2023.5
Klíčová slova: Armenia; diaspora; repatriation; integration; Akhpar
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Anotace:
The paper deals with the repatriation wave of Armenians from the Diaspora to Soviet
Armenia in the years 1946–1948. It was the largest targeted and systematic immigration back to
the Republic of Armenia, perceived primarily as a motherland and Promised Land; the migration
wave and its impact could be considered in the frame of Hebrew aliyahs, or “ascension upward”
(toward the Holy City). Returning from exile is called nergaghth in Armenian. The collective
memory of Soviet Armenia has usually depicted this immigration as a success, a rescue of a nation
threatened by genocide and an afflux of “new blood”; however, the repatriation was perceived as
disappointment and historical injustice by repatriates and considered one of the reasons for tensions between the Diaspora and its motherland. After 1956, the majority of repatriates returned to
their original host countries; those who remained in Armenia are (even after several generations)
called by the pejorative term akhpar
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Armenia in the years 1946–1948. It was the largest targeted and systematic immigration back to
the Republic of Armenia, perceived primarily as a motherland and Promised Land; the migration
wave and its impact could be considered in the frame of Hebrew aliyahs, or “ascension upward”
(toward the Holy City). Returning from exile is called nergaghth in Armenian. The collective
memory of Soviet Armenia has usually depicted this immigration as a success, a rescue of a nation
threatened by genocide and an afflux of “new blood”; however, the repatriation was perceived as
disappointment and historical injustice by repatriates and considered one of the reasons for tensions between the Diaspora and its motherland. After 1956, the majority of repatriates returned to
their original host countries; those who remained in Armenia are (even after several generations)
called by the pejorative term akhpar