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SUMMARY:[Historikertag 2021] Children at Risk: Conflicting Interpretations of Identity and Belonging after 1945
DESCRIPTION:Conflicting interpretations about the belonging of children in the field of tension between family, religious or ethnic group and nationality characterize our present time and possess an enormous potential for emotionalization. The beginnings of this kind of struggle go back to the time of the First World War. Since then, humanitarian organisations and League of Nations / UN institutions have gained influence on the fate of children. Until 1945, the conviction prevailed within these internationally active institutions that children should first belong to their parents and only then to a state, nation or group. However, as the struggles over Displaced Persons children showed, this definition of the “best interest of the child” contradicted the interests of many European states and religious groups. Children at risk were particularly affected. In 1945, these were initially children of occupation soldiers or DP children, then also children of single mothers and children whose parents were considered unsuitable for social or political reasons. These children were often placed for adoption, both nationally and transnationally. For the debates did not only relate to the question of whether a child should stay with its parents, but also to whom it should be given to. Whatever the decision was, it had serious consequences for the lives and identity constructions of these children. What does the absence of biological parents mean to the devlopment of a child? This question has gained importance since the 1970s in the psychological discussions as well as in the self-understanding of the children who have grown up. What biological origin means for identity has thus become a further facet of the struggles over the belonging of children.
Der Beitrag Children at Risk: Conflicting Interpretations of Identity and Belonging after 1945 erschien zuerst auf Historikertag 2021.
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