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Author Hajtó, Vera, author

Title Milk sauce and paprika : migration, childhood and memories of the interwar Belgian-Hungarian child relief project / Vera Hajtó
Published Leuven : Leuven University Press, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource (298 pages) : black and white illustrations, charts
Contents Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Migration and Childhood; States, Organisations, Families and Children: Levels of Analysis; Concepts: 'Holiday' -- 'Migration' -- 'Foster'; About Childhood: Archives, Ego-documents and Oral History; Part I. States, Institutions, and the Welfare of Children ; Chapter 1. Nations and Actors; International Relief Projects for Children and Pacifistic Objectives; Economy, Politics and Social Circumstances -- Belgium and Hungary; Introducing the Actors: the State, the Organisers and the Catholic Church
Chapter 2. Practising Propaganda and Negotiating Collective Identities: "Catholic people of the Kempen! Think about the Hungarian children"In the Newspapers; During Festivities; From the Travel Reports; 'Are the Children Suffering from Hunger in Hungary?': Mission Statement in the Form of a Polemic; Concluding Remarks to Part I; Part II. The Family Network -- The Best Interests of the Child; Chapter 1. The Hungarian Nation and the Best Interests of its Families and its Children; "Walking Red Tulips": They are the Future of the Hungarian Nation
Fairy Tales, Mythical Figures and the Relief ProjectFairy Tale Gone Bad?; Practising Social Control; Chapter 2. About the Families; Staying with Families; What Kinds of Families?; Assistance to the Families ; The Question of 'Adoption'; Chapter 3. Representation and Bonding of Families; Photographing the Family -- Photographing the Hungarian Child; Exchanging Letters -- Creating Families; Concluding Remarks to Part II; Part III. Children -- Migrants -- Identities: Between 'Motherland' and 'Home'; Chapter 1. The Returned Ones; Exchanging Letters -- Retaining Attachment; 'Anna uit Hongarije'
Chapter 2. Staying in Belgium -- Family and FriendsLetters from Home and Migrant Children ; Girlfriends in Sisterhood; Hungarians around Us -- the Beginning of an Organisation; Collective Remembrance -- Bonheiden 2007; Remembering Individually; Concluding Remarks to Part III; Conclusion; Structure and Agency in Migration and Childhood; Memory that Defines; Life after the Relief Project; Appendices; Appendix 1. Confessional distribution of the Hungarian population around 1930
Appendix 2. Statistics of the Hungarian children who participated in the international relief project in the different countriesAppendix 3. Quantitative data on the relief project based on the lists of names of the Hungarian children (1923-1927); Appendix 4. Estimation of number of children that remained in Belgium after the relief project; Notes; Illustration Credits; Sources; Bibliography
Summary Children who migrated without their families were noteworthy participants of interwar European migration history. 'Milk Sauce and Paprika' tells the story of Hungarian children who were sent to Belgium in the framework of a humanitarian project between 1923 and 1927. Based on a wide variety of sources such as official documents, contemporary newspapers, photographs, family correspondences, biographies and interviews, this book examines the history of the Belgian-Hungarian child relief project and describes its social and cultural impacts on the families involved in both countries. This compelling story of one of the first mass European child migration movements offers new insights in the dynamics of national and religious communities. Furthermore, it sheds light on intimate family life and contemporary habits and values regarding parenting and co-parenting in the interwar period. Cutting across national and cultural borders, this monograph connects individual and collective memory with the experiences of childhood and migration
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-289) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Children -- Hungary -- 20th century
Immigrants -- Belgium -- 20th century
Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
Children
Emigration and immigration
Immigrants
Auswanderung
Einwanderung
Kind
Belgium
Hungary
Ungarn
Belgien
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789461662071
9461662076