An autoethnographic study of the legacies of collective trauma experienced by Russian Mennonite women who immigrated to Canada after WWII: implications on aging and the next generation

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dc.contributor.authorKrahn, Elizabeth
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeHeinonen, Tuula (Social Work) Loewen, Royden (University of Winnipeg)en_US
dc.contributor.supervisorCheung, Maria (Social Work)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2011-09-01T16:06:04Z
dc.date.available2011-09-01T16:06:04Z
dc.date.issued2011-09-01
dc.degree.disciplineSocial Worken_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Social Work (M.S.W.)en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores lifespan and intergenerational trauma effects experienced by Russian Mennonite women who fled from Stalinist Russia during WWII and migrated to Canada, and adult sons or daughters of this generation of women. As an adult child of survivors, I employed an autoethnographic methodology, conducting 1-on-1 interviews with eight women aged 78 to 96, and seven adult children aged 50 to 68. Older women demonstrated a lifelong emphasis on mental strength, faith, and resilience; the marginalization of emotions; evidence of insecure attachment styles; and potential for unresolved trauma to resurface in later life. The majority of adult children experienced attachment and identity issues; their life experiences are viewed through the lens of biological, psychological, familial, cultural (religious) transmission of trauma effects. Results highlight the importance of structural and narrative social work approaches that externalize and contextualize trauma and transform service environments that individualize and/or pathologize lifespan outcomes of trauma.en_US
dc.description.noteOctober 2011en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/4821
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.subjectLife course approachen_US
dc.subjectCritical gerontologyen_US
dc.subjectCollective traumaen_US
dc.subjectMigrationen_US
dc.subjectRussian Mennonite womenen_US
dc.subjectMental healthen_US
dc.subjectLifespan trauma effectsen_US
dc.subjectIntergenerational trauma transmissionen_US
dc.subjectInsecure attachmenten_US
dc.subjectNarrative approachesen_US
dc.subjectExternalizing and contextualizing traumaen_US
dc.subjectStructural social worken_US
dc.titleAn autoethnographic study of the legacies of collective trauma experienced by Russian Mennonite women who immigrated to Canada after WWII: implications on aging and the next generationen_US
dc.typemaster thesisen_US
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