02645oam 2200613 c 450 991081100160332120220221094418.03-657-76028-89783657760282(CKB)4100000011946681(MiAaPQ)EBC6631763(Au-PeEL)EBL6631763(OCoLC)1255222145(Brill | Schöningh)9783657760282(EXLCZ)99410000001194668120220221d2021 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Reluctant ExilesLatvians in the West after World War IIAndrejs Plakans1st ed.PaderbornBrill | Schöningh20211 online resource (741 pages)On the Boundary of Two Worlds453-506-76028-9 The book is a group biography of the 175,000+ Latvians who fled their homeland during the final year of World War II (1944-45), lived until 1951 as refugees in Sweden and Germany, and then dispersed to other countries throughout the world.The post-1945 history of these Latvians includes a description of their lives in 'displaced person' camps in post-war Germany, dispersion in the 1949-1951 years, resettlement in new host countries in Europe and overseas, strategies of adaptation to the new circumstances, organizational efforts, acculturation and assimilation, measures of cultural and linguistic preservation, renewal of contacts with the old homeland, generational change and disagreements, political mobilization, changes in personal and group identity, and, after 1991, the inclusion by the Latvian government of the descendants of this post-war population into a formally designated 'Latvian diaspora' (Diaspora Law, 2019).On the boundary of two worlds ;Volume 45.DiasporaEmigrationAssimilationCultural PreservationBilingualismNational IdentityBaltic RegionLanguage MaintenanceDiasporaEmigrationAssimilationCultural PreservationBilingualismNational IdentityBaltic RegionLanguage Maintenance920.0475Plakans Andrejsaut1308746MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811001603321The Reluctant Exiles3971262UNINA