Идентичност и миграция 2. Американският случай
Identity and Migration 2. The American Case

Summary/Abstract: The article continues the series of observations related to the problem of identity construction among the East European emigrants/immigrants “in the West” (Europe and USA) before and after the “democratic changes”. It presents the second case (the first one was published in the first volume of the thematic issue “The Road I-II” of the journal “Bulgarian Ethnology“) which analyses materials from the United States. The study examines an example of “successful” immigrant from Bulgaria in USA who constructs his identity and a number of aspects of his life on the basis of the Russian national narrative. If the Estonian case demonstrates an identity constructed on the basis of national narrative founded on folklore (pseudo-folklore) sources, the present case shows a national narrative constructed on the basis of the Russian history, classic literature, art and so on, i.e. based on the Russian “high culture”. The study is based on long-term observations and particular fieldwork conducted in 2015-2016 in New York and Long Island, USA.

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