@article{01919872-2d48-7225-90e2-7dd9bef7bc0a,
author = {Monika I. Szewczyk},
title = {Korkore pał peste – About Themselves. Roma History of Post-War Internal Migration of Polish Carpathian Roma},
journal = {Migration Studies – Review of Polish Diaspora},
volume = {2023 (XLIX)},
number = {Vol. 4 (190)},
year = {2024},
issn = {2081-4488},
pages = {139-162},keywords = {Carpathian Roma; internal migration; oral history; Nowa Huta; Operation ‘Vistula”},
abstract = {The presented article will address the issues of internal migration of the Carpathian Roma after World War II in Poland. They will be shown from the Roma perspective, thus becoming part of decolonisation processes. I understand decolonisation in this perspective as listening to the voices of the native population, negating the superiority and reversing the nationalistic history in which there is no place for ethnic minorities. Hence, the article is mainly based on the concept of oral history, which gives the Roma the opportunity to construct their own narrative about themselves in public and academic spaces. On the basis of autoethnography, as well as ethnographic and archival research I have conducted, the article will present two waves of internal migration of Polish Carpathian Roma. Voluntary migration to Nowa Huta of an economic nature, linked to the urbanisation and industrialisation of the country. From the point of view of a person immersed in Roma culture, this migration is uncritically and stereotypically reproduced. The second type of migration is forced migration, related to the resettlement of the Carpathian Roma during the Operation Vistula to the Western and Northern Territories. The history of these resettlements is absent from narratives about the post-1947 social landscape in Poland, just as the history of their residence in the area of the present-day Podkarpackie Voivodeship is little known.},
doi = {10.4467/25444972SMPP.23.044.19635},
url = {https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/smpp/article/korkore-pal-peste-sami-o-sobie-romska-historia-powojennych-migracji-wewnetrznych-polskich-romow-karpackich}
}