PM för avhandling om arbetaremigrationen från Sverige till Sovjetunionen 1917-1939

Title: Memorandum for thesis about the labour migration to the Soviet union 1917-1939 This memorandum for thesis deals with the international migration to the USSR, principally during the 1920s and 1930s and, though the whole process is described, the Swedish emigrants and Soviet Karelia are subjected to a more attentive exposition. The aim has been to present and evaluate previous research on the migration to USSR and Soviet Karelia to find shortcomings, which can function as a point of departure for further studies. Previous research finds that the migration to the USSR was special, due to the strong political awareness of a not insignificant part of the migrants. Furthermore, an important part of the memorandum, partly as a consequence due to the lack of theoretical perspectives in previous research, was to present a theoretical framework for a feasible thesis. The theoretical approaches to class, gender, ethnicity and generation has consistently been connected to previous research to demonstrate how further studies can be constructed. However, the choice of these theoretical approaches also finds its foundation in the inherent advantages for study of social relations, the capability to categorize people, the inherent relation of power, and the connection to a person’s identity. As a result, I claim that the use of the concepts class, gender, ethnicity, and generation can create a bigger understanding of the migration process, about the migrants in both their countries of departure and the daily life of the migrants in their new home country