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veneration of the historic Latvian farmstead, their rural childhoods, and the virtues said to be present in rural life. 41 As in the US, the years immediately following initial settlement produced among the former DPs a bewildering variety of occupations because having to earn a living was inescapable. For
showed a considerable bitterness when he described what he had been doing in Stockholm to earn a living in the years after his arrival in 1944: My [working] life has been excellent … especially in the early years when I was a baggage handler in Stockholm’s main railroad station…. I had already
that over the past decades the size of the post-WWII western Latvian population had become even more of a fragment of the tauta than it had been initially, and that the Latvian population of the renewed state – about 1.4 million, living in a democratic political system – had now moved to center
with refugee resettlement. A case study on the history of Operation Safe Haven provided parameters for investigating the ways in which generosi- ty is inhibited by nationally contextual and historical perspectives. Generosity was a crucial motivating factor that led to the implementation of Operation
many in the intelligentsia continued to earn a living under the Germans as facilitators of cultural activities in libraries, museums, publishing houses, and newspapers. Control of the life of the mind and of the imagination was for these two regimes one aspect of total control over private lives, and
was one of relief and elation, reinforcing the perception that the Australian government had delivered the Kosovars to a new life motivated by a sense of compassionate obligation. Chesterton noted how the refugees regarded Australia as a ‘safe country’ without enemies where they could relax from the
Chapter 3 forced onto over-crowded trains by Serbian police to be taken to the Macedo- nian border.28 Over the next week, life at the border camps was miserable and hopeless, a crossroads between freedom and the horrors of war left behind. Thousands of all ages congregated in an open field at Blace (a
days of her life in Trinidad, she recalled, Aunty Mary was living in the St. Ann’s area and she was the help for a family in the area. For the first year, I went to work with her and helped with the cleaning and cooking. She would give me money from her wages. It was not much but I felt good to be
useful to the French living there, and defend the Catholic faith’. 25 Like Negri, Dadichi never returned to Syria, but spent the rest of his life travelling in Europe, sometimes employed in the same positions as his compatriot. With the Ottoman Empire increasingly becoming a venue of rivalries between
migration strategies. This study presents a new interpretation of rural migration, arguing that Early Modern rural Czech society was not static but dynamic, contrary to the assumptions of the Czech Marxist research tradition. It argues that mobility was a normal part of everyday life in Early Modern Bohemia