On the Border: The Contested Children of the Second World War

Autor/inn/en	Ericsson, Kjersti; Simonsen, Eva
Titel	On the Border: The Contested Children of the Second World War
Quelle	In: Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 15 (2008) 3, S.397-414 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0907-5682
DOI	10.1177/0907568208091670
Schlagwörter	War; World History; Foreign Countries; Sexuality; Females; Children; Biculturalism; Social Bias; Group Experience; Memory; Conflict; Racial Factors; Improvement; Nationalism; Social Problems; Acculturation; Futures (of Society); Conflict Resolution; Anxiety; Emotional Problems; Social Isolation; Germany; Norway + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Krieg; Weltgeschichte; Ausland; Sexualität; Weibliches Geschlecht; Child; Kind; Kinder; Bikulturalität; Gedächtnis; Konflikt; Qualitätssteigerung; Nationalismus; Social problem; Soziales Problem; Akkulturation; Future; Society; Zukunft; Conflict solving; Konfliktlösung; Konfliktregelung; Angst; Soziale Isolation; Deutschland; Norwegen
Abstract	This article conceptualizes Second World War children of German soldiers and native women in Norway as "border children", who became symbolic bearers of deep societal conflicts. The authors demonstrate that this position had painful consequences in the personal experiences of the children, experiences that were shared with war children in other occupied countries in Europe. Being a "border child" is discussed in relation to three topics: (1) the construction of a national narrative expressing the collective memory of war and occupation; (2) the cultural pattern making the sexuality of women national property; and (3) the transformation of social and political conflicts into biological and medical terms and categories. (Contains 3 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10