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Dr. Machteld Venken

Born 1980 Dr. Machteld Venken holds a master’s degree in Slavic Studies (Leuven, 2002) and in Transition Economics (Cracow, 2004). In December 2008, she defended her doctoral dissertation ‘Straddling the Iron Curtain? Migrants’ War Memories’ at the Catholic University of Leuven (Department of History). The dissertation focuses on the processes of giving meaning to war experiences of migrants in post-war life, processes that were shaped not only by the characteristics of the war experiences themselves, but also by the changing positions which migrants held within their home and host societies. The dissertation unravels the changing processes of their integration into and/or exclusion from the cultural field on war memory over time. As a result, it finds itself on the crossroads of a variety of living historiographical developments in the fields of World War II memory, East-West relations, and migration history.

Key activities

• Migration and gender
• Migration politics in Europe
• Migration research
• Professional/social/cultural integration

Publications

• Venken, Machteld, Beyers, Leen and Goddeeris, Idesbald (ed.): Families, Constructions of Foreignness and Migration in 20th Century Europe. Special issue of the journal History of the Family. A Quarterly (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam) (published in Spring 2009).
• Venken, Machteld: Singing Meaning to War Experiences, In: Boesen, Elisabeth and Lenz, Fabienne (ed.) Migration et mémoire. Concepts et methods de recherche/ Migration und Erinnerung. Konzepte und Methoden der Forschung. Luxemburg, Lit Verlag (2009), accepted for publication.
• Venken, Machteld: Polish liberators and Ostarbeiterinnen in Belgium during the Cold War. Mixed marriages and the differences for immigrant men and women. In: Schrover, Marlou and Yeo, Eileen (ed.) Gender and migration. Londen, Taylor & Francis (2009), accepted for publication.
• Venken, Machteld: Letters connect people and people? The Communist ‘Polonia’ Society and Polish Immigrants in Belgium, 1956-90. Transnationalism avant la lettre? In: Journal of Intercultural Studies, Newcastle University, thematic issue Writing Home (ed. Philippe Rygiel) (Spring 2007) 25-38.
• Venken, Machteld and Goddeeris, Idesbald: The Nationalization of Ukrainian Identities. 1945-1950. In: Journal of Ukrainian Studies (December 2006) 89-115.

Contact

Catholic University Leuven
Dr. Machteld Venken
Bergbeemden 34
Turnhout 2300
Belgium

http://hdl.handle.net/1979/2028

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