Homogénéité nationale et mouvements migratoires : imaginaires et réalités des populations échangées entre le traité de Lausanne et la guerre civile grecque

Abstract

Abstract: this article attempts to examine the movements of populations that preceded or followed the Treaty of Lausanne in relation to social representations of otherness in Greece in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, with reference to the ways in which these refugees were accepted and integrated in a country undergoing geopolitical and socio-economic transformation, as well as in relation to their own social commitment to the great challenges of World War II and the Resistance. The different positions adopted by the various actors are studied, with reference to the particular circumstances of each group, in order to better understand the position that the various communities occupied in the reality and imagination of the Greek Civil War from the 1920s to the 1940s. The relationship between the refugee populations and the Greek Communist Party is compared to the CCP’s conception of Greek expansionism and, more importantly, to its inclusive policy towards these dispossessed populations, previously close to the Liberal Party and weakened by the refugee experience and the definitive loss of their ancestral lands.

Keywords

• refugees
• Venizelism
• integration
• Greek Communist Party
• Liberal party
• Pontic refugees