Gritsenko Galina D.,
Doctor of Philosophy, Federal Research Centre The Southern Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Rostov-on-Don, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Maslova Tatyana F.,
Doctor of Sociology, Stavropol State Pedagogical Institute, Stavropol, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Cultural Memory as the Basis of Integration of Migrants in the Host Community (by the Example of the Stavropol Territory)
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2020-4-16
The last decade of the 20th and the beginning of the 21th centuries for the South Russian region was tragic not only in terms of the socio-economic situation, but also physical survival: military operations, terrorist attacks and, as a result, powerful flows of forced migrants. Among the host territories, an important place belongs to the Stavropol Territory, which has several advantages: the agrarian region, a multi-ethnic community. But the main prerequisite for the integration of migrants into the host community is cultural memory as a manifestation of existential foundations of the world and the standard image of man common for the migrants and local residents. The main method that provides the maximum opportunity to “discover” the content of the cultural memory of immigrants is the oral history method. The semiotic analysis of the linguistic features of the construction of information obtained by the oral history method revealed the optimism of migrants’ social well-being and their tendency to integrate into the host society. However, it was revealed that cultural memory as “an active dialogue of the culture of the present with various structures belonging to the past” does not work automatically. For the full integration of immigrants into the new community, unity, a synthesis of the cultural memory and personal qualities of the migrants themselves are necessary.
Publishing: 29/08/2020
How to cite: Gritsenko G.D., Maslova T.F. Cultural Memory as the Basis of Integration of Migrants in the Host Community (by the Example of the Stavropol Territory) // Historical Courier, 2020, No. 4 (12), pp. 196–203. [Available online:] http://istkurier.ru/data/2020/ISTKURIER-2020-4-16.pdf
Links: Issue 4 2020
Keywords: forced migrants; cultural memory; oral history method; host community; integration