Where local trumps national : Christian orthodox and Muslim refugees since Lausanne

Abstract

In this paper, I will focus on displaced persons’ life stories to demonstrate how the processes of displacement, deterritorialization and resettlement can shape the construction of national and social identity in the long term. Specifically, I will examine how and the extent to which individual experience of nationalism and national identity may differ from nationalism presented as a basis for state building. This exercise shares a common concern with Hobsbawm, who indicates that the study or...