Les immigrés, rescapés d’un génocide, sont des émigrés de nulle part

From an experience which is familiar to me, this paper deals with a type of immigration, paradoxical in its terms since its reference place does not exist any more and is not registered any more in the world as having ever existed: that of the descendants of survivors of the Armenian genocide who, a...

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Main Author: Janine Altounian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: TELEMME - UMR 6570 2007-09-01
Series:Amnis
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/amnis/821
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Summary:From an experience which is familiar to me, this paper deals with a type of immigration, paradoxical in its terms since its reference place does not exist any more and is not registered any more in the world as having ever existed: that of the descendants of survivors of the Armenian genocide who, abandoning Constantinople in the 20s, landed in Marseilles as political refugees and imported manpower, provided with a passport being marked “without possible return”.
ISSN:1764-7193