“Conmemoracciones” : Memoria y Memorialización de los Niños Vascos Refugiados de la Guerra Civil Española en el Reino Unido
In 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, more than 3,800 boys and girls were evacuated from the port of Santurzi in Vizcaya, and taken to Southampton in the UK: about 450 would stay permanently. This paper analyses the experiences of these children: it combines oral history narratives with ethnographi...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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UMR 5136- France, Amériques, Espagne – Sociétés, Pouvoirs, Acteurs (FRAMESPA)
2010-05-01
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| Series: | Les Cahiers de Framespa |
| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/framespa/287 |
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| Summary: | In 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, more than 3,800 boys and girls were evacuated from the port of Santurzi in Vizcaya, and taken to Southampton in the UK: about 450 would stay permanently. This paper analyses the experiences of these children: it combines oral history narratives with ethnographic observations concerning recent commemorative practices in England and Bilbao, in order to evaluate the impact of forced migration on the construction of the participants’ identity. The primary aim of this paper is to explore what lies beneath the celebration of these commemorative rituals and to evaluate different perspectives on such rituals by diverse actors such as ’the entrepreneurs of memory’ and those who I argue should be termed ’memory brokers’. I wish to problematize in particular the extent to which ’memory brokers’ contribute to the memory-fever of today’s world, and to evaluate the transformative impact of their actions on the collective memory of this group. I will also consider the labels which have been given to these people, and the consequences of the creation of a form of discourse which is linked to the recuperation of historical memory in Spain. |
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| ISSN: | 1760-4761 |