Forced Migration and Intergenerational Relations. Adolescent Transformations of Parental Experiences of Forced Migration and Remigration as Exemplified by the “GDR Children of Namibia”.

被迫迁移和代际关系。

• 批准号: 515408579
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Matthias Witte
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Namibia University of Science and Technology
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/515408579?language=en
• 关键词: Forced; Migration; Intergenerational; Relations.; Adolescent

This research project studies the intergenerational relations of a hitherto under-researched group, the so-called “GDR children of Namibia”. The study thus closes a gap in research, since a transgenerational approach to forced migration in the context ‘GDR/Namibia’ has not been established so far. With its focus on biographical representations of adolescent descendants of the “GDR children”, which grow up in Namibia, the study generates theoretical as well as methodical-methodological knowledge, that extends the current research on migration and adolescence from a postcolonial perspective. Furthermore, the analysis meets the desideratum of a transgenerationally-oriented research on coping with GDR experiences and those of German reunification in the context of (re)migration by reconstructing transformations of the experiences of the so-called “Dritte Generation Ost" (“Third Generation East”) by the children of these remigrated “Wendekinder” (children of the German reunification who were born in the GDR). The term “GDR children of Namibia” refers to a group of roughly 430 people who, under the aegis of a solidarity project between the South West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO) and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) between 1979 and 1989, were taken from Namibian refugee camps in Angola and Zambia and sent to the German Democratic Republic (GDR). The purpose of this program was to safeguard these children from the dangers posed by the war of liberation being fought against the occupying forces of South Africa, and to raise them to become the elite of a free Namibia in the future. Following Namibian independence and the reunification of Germany in 1990, they were returned, unprepared, to Namibia. These biographies have been researched, based on 30 biographic-narrative interviews. It shows, that the forced migration to the GDR, the socialisation there as well as the experience of German reunification and their remigration to Namibia continue to affect the biographies of those concerned until today. The narrations of the interviewed “GDR-children”, of which many are parents now, mark the intergenerational importance of forced migration experiences in the relations with their adolescent children. As a result of the transmission of the parental experiences and in the light of the radical social transformations, specific biographical demands of transformation and neoformation – along the categories of education, parenting, belonging, gender, family, friendship and collectivity as well as political socialisation – become apparent for the adolescents in postcolonial Namibia. The study elaborates for the first time how these parental experiences are transformed biographically by the adolescent children.

该研究项目研究了一个迄今尚未得到充分研究的群体的代际关系，即所谓的“纳米比亚东德儿童”。因此，这项研究填补了研究空白，因为迄今为止尚未建立“东德/纳米比亚”背景下强迫移民的跨代方法。该研究重点关注在纳米比亚长大的“东德儿童”青少年后裔的传记代表性，产生了理论和方法论知识，从后殖民的角度扩展了当前关于移民和青少年的研究。此外，通过重构这些移民的“Wendekinder”（在东德出生的德国统一的孩子）的孩子们所经历的转变，该分析满足了跨代导向的研究的需要，即在（重新）移民的背景下应对东德经历和德国统一的经历。 “纳米比亚东德儿童”一词指的是大约 430 人，在 1979 年至 1989 年间，在西南非洲人民组织 (SWAPO) 和德国社会主义统一党 (SED) 之间的团结项目的支持下，他们从安哥拉和赞比亚的纳米比亚难民营被送往德意志民主共和国 (GDR)。该计划的目的是保护这些儿童免受针对南非占领军的解放战争带来的危险，并培养他们未来成为自由纳米比亚的精英。 1990 年纳米比亚独立和德国统一后，他们在毫无准备的情况下被遣返回纳米比亚。这些传记是根据 30 份传记叙事访谈进行研究的。它表明，被迫移居东德、在那里的社会化以及德国统一的经历以及他们重新移居纳米比亚的经历至今仍在影响着有关人士的传记。受访的“东德儿童”（其中许多人现已为人父母）的叙述标志着强迫移民经历在他们与青春期孩子的关系中的代际重要性。由于父母经历的传承以及彻底的社会变革，对于后殖民纳米比亚的青少年来说，转型和新形态的具体传记要求——包括教育、养育、归属感、性别、家庭、友谊和集体以及政治社会化等范畴——变得显而易见。该研究首次详细阐述了青春期儿童如何改变这些父母的经历。