Milk Sauce and Paprika : Migration, Childhood and Memories of the Interwar Belgian-Hungarian Child Relief Project / Vera Hajtó, Vera.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hajtó, Vera, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--Belgium--History--20th century.

Immigrants.

Unaccompanied immigrant children--Hungary--History--20th century.

Unaccompanied immigrant children.

Belgium--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.

Belgium.

Hungary--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.

Hungary.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press, 2016.

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.

Contents:

Introduction

part I. States, institutions, and the welfare of children

part II. The family network

the best interests of the child

part III. Children

migrants

identities : between 'motherland' and 'home'

Conclusion

Appendices.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-289) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

94-6166-207-6

OCLC:

1016636072