Dans le cadre des conférences AMiMo
Mardi 5 avril 2016 à l’IFEA à 17h
Adeline Braux (IFEA, Bakou)
Relocation from Russia to Azerbaijan:
adaptation experiences of young Russian-Azerbaijanis to their parents’ homeland
Around 800,000 Azerbaijanis live in the Russian Federation, among them a significant number of young second-generation people. The collapse of the USSR gave rise to these first ‘hyphenated Russian-Azerbaijanis’, who find themselves between two cultural spaces but are generally embedded in the Russian environment they have always lived in. This article focuses on the way these young people cope with relocation to Azerbaijan. Based on new material gathered during extensive fieldwork in different regions of the country, the conference will explore the issues of adaptation from a practical point of view. It will also consider the feelings of otherness and nostalgia that many young Russian-Azerbaijanis experience as they make the transition. As well as considering how they negotiate their position in their families and within local communities, the conference will deal with issues around return migration from the perspective of gender. The overall aim is to contribute to our understanding of the experience of second-generation children as they migrate to their parents’ homeland.
uniquement sur invitation jusqu’au 1er avril 2016
en écrivant à l’adresse e-mail de l’AMiMo : amimo.ifea@gmail.com