Abstract
One of the ways to examine how migrant communities grow to become diasporas would be to track the evolvement of migrants’ personal reflectivity and to analyze its impact on community development. Personal reflectivity has been on the rise in Ukrainian migrant communities in Southern Europe, as reflected in proliferation of various works of fiction and poetry produced by the migrants, all focusing on their experiences of displacement, nostalgia and adaptation to the new cultural environs. Yet, this cultural phenomenon, in its active unfolding in the Ukrainian diaspora, has not been subject to any scholarly evaluation. In this article I discuss such migrant self-reflectivity that had evolved in the last two decades amongst the Ukrainian migrants in Europe. Here I focus on migrants ‘poetic economy’ as it is pursued in the Ukrainian community in Portugal. Based on my ethnographic work in greater Lisbon area, with the Ukrainian vernacular poets and their texts, I argue that migrant reflectivity and poetic economy, a term I coined to illustrate the workings of migrant poetry production, distribution and consumption, serve the Ukrainians in Portugal as effective means of diasporic community building.
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Notes
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According to the recent statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, there are five million Ukrainian nationals living abroad.
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This bibliography has been completed in the summer of 2012. See (Khanenko-Friesen 2013).
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Eight book positions in the bibliography are listed without the year of publication and are not included in this table.
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First such effort was undertaken in 2003 when the first issue of the Christian Ukrainian magazine Pysanka came out. This magazine was published by the Ukrainian Basilian Fathers (the Greek Catholic Basilian Order of St. Josaphat) who arrived to Portugal in 2001 upon the invitation from the Patriarchate of Lisbon.
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Meest newspaper serves Spain and Portugal (since 2004) and The Ukrainian Migrant newspaper serves Italy, Spain, and Portugal.
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Compiled in 2016, this bibliography is the work in progress and includes the works by Nadya Baranovska, Ihor Bodnarchuk, Oleksa Bryhas, Oksana Haida, Ihor Fedchyshyn, Natalia Kuznetsova, Tamara Lavruk Moroshan, Neonilla Lysun, Bohdan Maly, Oksana Maksymysh-Korabel, Anatolii Panchenko, Ivan Tymoshchuk, and Iryna Yamborak.
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Khanenko-Friesen, N. (2017). Migrant Self-Reflectivity and New Ukrainian Diaspora in Southern Europe: The Case of Portugal. In: Nikolko, M., Carment, D. (eds) Post-Soviet Migration and Diasporas. Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47773-2_4
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