TY - GEN N1 - 24 cm N2 - After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the so-called Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, covering the area within the 30 km radius from the nuclear reactor site, was established (also in Belarus). All people were evacuated from the zone and displaced to “clean” territory. For the purpose of the current paper, reports of witnesses from the documental prose, dialectal texts, publications and Belarus Archives of Oral History were analysed in an attempt to find in their narratives the answers to the following questions: who the people called “chernobyltsy” (literally: the Chernobyl ones) are and in what way they were and are seen by other people, especially just after the disaster; what the reaction of the people to the process of evacuation was; what the indigenous people during the evacuation took with them; what they left at their homes and why; what their attitude towards new comfortable houses and flats was; in what way they tried to adapt themselves to new environment; where they buried the dead; and whether they successfully settled in their new places of residence. Having analysed the reports and arranged them according to the phenomenology of the area based on the report of H. Buczyńska-Garewicz, the category of “rootedness” of S. Weil and J. Tischner, A. van Gennep’s theory of rites of passage”, the author concludes that a great number of “chernobyltsy” are deeply rooted in their motherland; an approach that excludes the possibility of expanding the definition of “home” and “the sense of settlement”. Those people usually suffer at their new places of residence and sometimes return home. The only strategies favouring their acceptance of a new place that have been observed are focusing on work, especially on working the land (an allotment), or focusing on the health of their children L1 - http://www.rcin.org.pl/iae/Content/113601/PDF/WA308_141970_P714_Przesiedle%C5%84cy-ze-str_I.pdf M3 - Text J2 - Evacuees from the Exclusion Zone after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster: problems with settling in a new space J2 - Journal of Urban Ethnology 17 (2019) PY - 2019 EP - 170 KW - the sense of settlement KW - rootedness KW - Chernobyl nuclear disaster KW - Belarus KW - oral history A1 - Kozłowska-Doda, Jadwiga PB - Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii PAN VL - 17 CY - Kraków SP - 149 T1 - Przesiedleńcy ze strefy wykluczenia po katastrofie atomowej w Czarnobylu: problemy z zadomawianiem się w nowej przestrzeni UR - http://www.rcin.org.pl/iae/dlibra/publication/edition/113601 ER -