Memories of Anatolia : generating Greek refugee identity

Abstract

The experience of the Asia Minor Greeks merits special attention, since it provides a unique, long-term case-study of adjustment and settlement in both rural and urban areas. Understanding social life in such localities may provide insights into some ways in which uprooted people cope with the challenges of survival, with material deprivation, with social and personal disruption and with the issue of identity. Greeks who fled from Asia Minor after 1922 and their descendants created a refugee ...