Exile and identity.

Title: Exile and identity.
Identifier: AAI9830685
identifier: 9830685
Creator: Boveland, Brigitta.
Contributor: Adviser: Leanne Rivlin
Date: 1998
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Anthropology, Cultural | Psychology, Social | Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies
Abstract: In 1942, in New York City, a group of Austrian Jewish refugees of Nazi Austria founded the AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE, later renamed the AUSTRIAN FORUM. Eighteen people affiliated with that organization agreed to be study participants, and granted in-depth interviews. Following principles advanced in Environmental Psychology, the AUSTRIAN FORUM was examined as the socio-cultural, physical place that gave public expression to an identity sprung from exile. The study participants' narratives described the exile experience as one of severe disruption to place attachment, with the loss of home bearing critical implications in regard to the reconfiguration of identity. In the FORUM's fifty year history, the organization represented different facets of that identity--patriotism for Austria, expression of the exile experience, and nostalgia--thus giving voice to the complex emotions of a group of people coming to terms with the experience of violent displacement.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.