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Corning, Amy D.

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When the past is another country: The impact of emigration on memories.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	When the past is another country: The impact of emigration on memories./
Author:	Corning, Amy D.
Description:	166 p.
Notes:	Advisers: James S. House; Howard Schuman.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-02A.
Subject:	Jewish Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3253249

When the past is another country: The impact of emigration on memories.
Corning, Amy D.

When the past is another country: The impact of emigration on memories. - 166 p.

Advisers: James S. House; Howard Schuman.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 2007.

Prior research on memories provides evidence for a curvilinear relationship of memories to age, where events occurring during the "critical years" of adolescence and early adulthood are more likely to be remembered than events occurring either earlier or later in the lifecourse. The primacy of experiences from the critical years, and their role in development of identity, may be responsible for this relationship.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017696
Jewish Studies.

When the past is another country: The impact of emigration on memories.
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520 $a Prior research on memories provides evidence for a curvilinear relationship of memories to age, where events occurring during the "critical years" of adolescence and early adulthood are more likely to be remembered than events occurring either earlier or later in the lifecourse. The primacy of experiences from the critical years, and their role in development of identity, may be responsible for this relationship.
520 $a Are such patterns of memories affected by significant life transitions that initiate a new set of novel experiences, even when the adolescent/early adult years are long past? This research examines emigration from one country to another as an example of such a transition, focusing on the memories of Jewish emigrants from the (former) Soviet Union to the United States. A mail survey was administered to a sample drawn from the records of refugee assistance agencies; 1,013 respondents provided data on their memories of national/world and personal events and their social background characteristics.
520 $a The usual curvilinear association of memories with the critical years was identified, indicating that the destabilizing experience of emigration does not disrupt established patterns of memories. Indeed, the percentages of emigrants mentioning specific events corresponded closely to percentages of respondents in Russia and Ukraine mentioning the same events in a survey ten years earlier. Implications of the lasting nature of memories are considered.
520 $a I hypothesized that the emigration period itself would serve as a source of significant memories, increasing mentions of events from the time of emigration. This hypothesis was not supported for mentions of national or world events, but memories of personal events showed associations with both the time of adolescence/early adulthood and the time of emigration. Moreover, the nature of the emigration experience itself affected memories: respondents who experienced emigration against the background of social and political turmoil (1989-91) or as an irrevocable breach in their lives (before 1989) were more likely to have memories of emigration than later emigrants, an association opposite in direction to any possible effect of recency. These results are consistent with explanations identifying novel experiences and the (re)shaping of identity as factors responsible for observed patterns of memories.
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