Identity in conflict: lithuanian immigration in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay

• Grant number: 13/50934-0
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants - Publications - Books published in Brazil
• Start date: March 01, 2014
• End date: February 28, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History
• Principal Investigator: Erick Reis Godliauskas Zen
• Grantee: Erick Reis Godliauskas Zen
• Host Institution: União das Instituições de Serviços, Ensino e Pesquisa Ltda. (UNISEPE). Faculdades Integradas do Vale do Ribeira (FVR)

Abstract

We aim to investigate the forms of organization and the relation among the Lithuanian communities rooted in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. By comparing them, we seek to understand the identity references within each national group during the process of territorial uprooting and solidarity bonding along with the inset processes in the different national states. At the same time, we intend to analyses how those communities have related to each other, beyond the country boundaries in which they had established themselves, building experience interchanges and organizing social and political movements. From the different political postures, we intend to identify the conflicts within the communities and against the Argentinian, Brazilian, and Uruguayan States and societies. We still intend to consider the Lithuanian government role in the community formation during the period of the country independency (1918-1940). We have considered the years between 1920 and 1950 as our time range, comprising the two main moments of the immigration to South America. (AU)