This paper looks at memory formation and the process of memorialization (or the lack of it) with regard to two cases of forced population movements in twentieth-century Europe: ethnic Germans during and after the Second World War, and the Romany populations following the Kosovo War of 1999. It...

Collective memory is the backbone of collective identity. But Collective memory is also constantly at risk, troubled by its less welcome aspects; and so, therefore, is collective identity. More fundamentally, there seems to be an elemental unease at the root – what Freud called an ‘Unbehagen in...