1st Edition

Remembering and Dealing with Violent Pasts Diasporic Experiences and Transnational Dimensions

Edited By Dilyara Müller-Suleymanova Copyright 2026
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

In an era defined by armed conflicts and mass displacement, this book offers a powerful journey into the lives of diasporic communities as they grapple with memories of war, genocide and persecution. Drawing on eight case studies - from Rwandan, Bosnian and Kurdish diasporas to Ukrainian, Chechen and Lebanese diasporic communities across Europe and North America - this volume intricately explores... Read more

Introduction: Remembering and dealing with violent past: diasporic experiences and transnational dimensions

Dilyara Müller-Suleymanova

 

1. Memories of violence in the Rwandan diaspora: intergenerational transmission and conflict transportation

Élise Féron

 

2. Inherited traumas in diaspora: postmemory, past-presencing and mobilisation of second-generation Kurds in Europe

Bahar Baser and Mari Toivanen

 

3. Dealing with a violent past and its remnants in the present: the challenges of remembering the wars in Chechnya in the Chechen Diaspora in the EU

Anne Le Huérou and Aude Merlin

 

4. Framing the present through the past: Ukrainian diaspora in France, Holodomor memory and the 2014 critical juncture

Hervé Amiot

 

5. Diasporic group boundaries and solidarity in the making: collective memory in the anti-war protests in Sweden

Sofiya Voytiv

 

6. The travelling art installation Prijedor ‘92: transnational memorialisation and the 1.5 generation

Johanna Paul

 

7. Biography, belonging and legacies of the Yugoslav disintegration wars in the lives of postmigrant youth in Switzerland

Dilyara Müller-Suleymanova

 

8. Ghostly ruins: conflict memories, narratives, and placemaking among Lebanese diasporas in Montreal

Bruno Lefort

 

Biography

Dilyara Müller-Suleymanova is an interdisciplinary social scientist whose work explores diaspora, memories, migration and intergenerational transmission, education, discrimination and inequality. Her research spans from minority communities in post-Soviet regions to diasporic groups in Europe, with a focus on belonging, exclusion, and the intergenerational impacts of displacement and violence.