Bruneau, Michel

The Territories of Identity and Collective Memory in Diaspora - 2007.


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A diaspora population seeks to appropriate places for itself in the territories of migration. It attempts to refer to a collective memory of its birthplace or lost homeland and to events that played a founding role. It uses an 'iconography' as the medium of that memory and identity and a marker of its territoriality. This article draws on the example of Greek refugees in Asia Minor.