Engagements with the Past and Armenians' Settlement Journeys in Canada.

Examinations of migrants' experiences have traditionally been confined to host country experiences. More recent studies consider the homeland-hostland relationship as a dynamic one, while also paying attention to the impact of events that happen outside these two landscapes. This article seeks to build on these latter works by considering the homeland-hostland connection from a different angle and argues that, when it happens, the post-migration discovery of homeland communal and personal histories results in salient personal transformations. Moreover, these hostland experiences are largely facilitated by encounters with the larger ethnic community. The examination draws upon data collected on Armenian migrants from Turkey to Canada.

Les examens des expériences des migrants se sont traditionnellement limités aux expériences du pays d'accueil. Des études plus récentes considèrent la relation entre le pays d'origine et le pays d'accueil comme une relation dynamique, tout en prêtant attention à l'impact des événements qui se produisent en dehors de ces deux paysages. Cet article cherche à s'appuyer sur ces derniers travaux en considérant le lien entre le pays d'origine et le pays d'accueil sous un angle différent et soutient que, lorsqu'elle se produit, la découverte post-migratoire des histoires communales et personnelles du pays d'origine entraîne des transformations personnelles importantes. En outre, ces expériences de la terre d'accueil sont largement facilitées par les rencontres avec la communauté ethnique élargie. L'étude s'appuie sur des données recueillies auprès de migrants arméniens de Turquie au Canada.

Navigating the nationalist landscape of exclusion: Armenian citizens of Turkey and the politics of naming.

This article examines how Armenian citizens of Turkey employ names and naming strategies in their everyday life in order to navigate a nationalist social landscape. Studies of nationalist politics in everyday life have been particularly successful in demonstrating how nationalism is experienced and reproduced through the consumption of national symbols and rituals. What remains relatively glossed over in these accounts are the individuals' constant and dynamic engagements with nationalist politics not only through national symbols and rituals but also through everyday social practices with fellow citizens. The present study seeks to capture and analyze this latter, relatively understudied, aspect. In doing so, the discussion reveals how individuals use different name strategies in order to fend off shame and humiliation as well as inhibit threats to status advancement. Overall, the following narrative moves beyond a demonstration of the functionality of nationalism as a source of unity and solidarity. Instead, it reveals the ways in which nationalist politics and minorities' responses align, diverge and/or conflict on the ground.