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The "Memory Cartography" of Azerbaijani Emigrants
In the memories of Azerbaijani emigrants, the map of Baku retains only those places which held personal meaning.
A closer look reveals these numbers break down into a wide range of categories: from genuine and nominal political refugees to students who do not return, from laborers and traders to highly skilled engineers and doctors, and from LGBTQ individuals to traditional families. In a review of Lithuanian historian Laimonas Briedis’s book Vilnius: A City of Wanderers, Alexander Ivanov, the editor-in-chief of Ad Marginem publishing house, writes: The storytellers are people aged 35-45, born in Baku or having lived there for a significant time, who left more than five years ago for various reasons: due to political beliefs and issues with the authorities, in search of emotional comfort, for the well-being of their children, or simply to follow a loved one…
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