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Record Nr.

UNINA9910159531703321

Autore

Hajtó Vera

Titolo

Milk Sauce and Paprika : Migration, Childhood and Memories of the Interwar Belgian-Hungarian Child Relief Project / / Vera Hajtó, Vera

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leuven, Belgium : , : Leuven University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

94-6166-207-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (298 pages)

Disciplina

305.2309439

Soggetti

Immigrants - Belgium - History - 20th century

Unaccompanied immigrant children - Hungary - History - 20th century

Belgium Emigration and immigration History 20th century

Hungary Emigration and immigration History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-289) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- part I. States, institutions, and the welfare of children -- part II. The family network--the best interests of the child -- part III. Children--migrants--identities : between 'motherland' and 'home' -- Conclusion -- Appendices.

Sommario/riassunto

Children who migrated without their families were noteworthy participants of interwar European migration history. Milk Sauce and Paprika tells the story of Hungarian children who were sent to Belgium in the framework of a humanitarian project between 1923 and 1927. Based on a wide variety of sources such as official documents, contemporary newspapers, photographs, family correspondences, biographies and interviews, this book examines the history of the Belgian-Hungarian child relief project and describes its social and cultural impacts on the families involved in both countries. This compelling story of one of the first mass European child migration movements offers new insights in the dynamics of national and religious communities. Furthermore, it sheds light on intimate family life and contemporary habits and values regarding parenting and co-parenting in the interwar period. Cutting across national and cultural borders, this monograph connects individual and collective memory



with the experiences of childhood and migration.