Double Victims and Agents of Change in Europe’s Margins: Estonian Emigrants Sharing ‘Their’ Repressive Soviet Past in the Netherlands
Year: 2017

The Soviet repressions are ‘living’ in Estonia. They still easily evoke an emotional response among a wide share of the population. Not being understood by Western Europeans when it comes to minority, nationalism and memory politics is one of the main concerns often mentioned during my extensive ethnographic study in Estonia. In the current chapter I explore what Estonians who moved to The Netherlands – where people adhere to another, in Europe more dominant memory narrative – do when they exper