I began this series of blog posts with a simple question: What happened to the Korean language the Koryo saram must have spoken? In documenting the maintenance of the Korean language among the Koryo saram, my previous blog posts covered broad themes in the history of the Koryo saram (blog post 1) and language usage […]
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Making Sense of Meskhetian Turk Migrations
You can’t undo a deportation. Jonathan Shapiro For my last three blog posts, I have decided to look at the history of Meskhetian Turks from their deportation in 1944 to the modern day. In this blog post, I am going to do my best to familiarize the reader with the Meskhetian Turks and how forced […]