Description
This paper focuses on the descendants of conflict-generated Kurdish diaspora movements from Turkey and Iraq and looks at the transmission of collective memories of a violent past onto the next generation. It zeroes into the everyday experiences of the Kurdish second generation to examine how it inherits the experiences of a violent past from their parents and how its members mobilise and demobilise around issues concerning collective trauma. The findings are based on the authors’ extensive fieldwork in Germany, Sweden, France, Finland and the Netherlands between 2008 and 2020. Secondary resources such as diaspora organizations’ websites, diaspora members’ interviews published in online media outlets, politicians’ speeches and newspaper articles are used to supplement the data gathered from face-to-face interviews.
