Stories from the Inheritors of the Exchange IV: From Thrace to Macedonia and Greece
10 set 2024 ·
25 min. 56 sec.
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Welcome back to ‘Crossing the Aegean: A Century of People on the Move’, where we explore the historical and contemporary trajectory of migration across the Aegean. In this episode, we...
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Welcome back to ‘Crossing the Aegean: A Century of People on the Move’, where we explore the historical and contemporary trajectory of migration across the Aegean. In this episode, we explore the memory of the Population Exchange through the perspectives of those with relatives who were part of the exchange. We focus on what it means to carry the legacy of the Exchange in one's lineage and how it influences people’s understanding of migration today. Additionally, we discuss how the Exchange has shaped the heterogeneous identities in the nations of Turkey and Greece.
Today, Christina Karvouni is with us. She studied sociology, social anthropology, and history, and holds a master’s degree in gender studies, where she focused on the effects of the Moria migrant detention center on the lives of women in Moria Village, Lesvos. She currently works with Community Peacemaker Teams in Lesvos, concentrating on the criminalization of migrants and detention centers. Christina has been involved in our podcast series since the beginning, and you may recognize her voice from our Greek recordings.Christina shares the story of how her family’s maternal side migrated from Tekirdağ (Redestos) to Macedonia and then Greece, while her paternal side is part of the Arvanite community in Greece, whose existence predates the Exchange. She reflects on how these two distinct groups have influenced modern Greek national identity. Through her personal experiences, she describes the place of migrants in the lives of settled communities, the social dynamics created by encounters between these groups, and how assimilation policies are applied to minorities and migrants in Greece. She also shares her impressions of the “invisible borders” still drawn through debates such as “Which Thrace, which Macedonia?”
This episode’s interview was conducted in English by Ozan Mirkan Balpetek. Mert Koçak summarized and interpreted Christina’s remarks in Turkish, and our friends from Community Peacemaker Teams provided the same in Greek.
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Today, Christina Karvouni is with us. She studied sociology, social anthropology, and history, and holds a master’s degree in gender studies, where she focused on the effects of the Moria migrant detention center on the lives of women in Moria Village, Lesvos. She currently works with Community Peacemaker Teams in Lesvos, concentrating on the criminalization of migrants and detention centers. Christina has been involved in our podcast series since the beginning, and you may recognize her voice from our Greek recordings.Christina shares the story of how her family’s maternal side migrated from Tekirdağ (Redestos) to Macedonia and then Greece, while her paternal side is part of the Arvanite community in Greece, whose existence predates the Exchange. She reflects on how these two distinct groups have influenced modern Greek national identity. Through her personal experiences, she describes the place of migrants in the lives of settled communities, the social dynamics created by encounters between these groups, and how assimilation policies are applied to minorities and migrants in Greece. She also shares her impressions of the “invisible borders” still drawn through debates such as “Which Thrace, which Macedonia?”
This episode’s interview was conducted in English by Ozan Mirkan Balpetek. Mert Koçak summarized and interpreted Christina’s remarks in Turkish, and our friends from Community Peacemaker Teams provided the same in Greek.
Informazioni
| Autore | Hafıza Merkezi |
| Organizzazione | Kerem Ciftcioglu |
| Sito | - |
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