This article lays ground for the concept of ethnic trauma for understanding the crisis of migration and its aftermath. The analysis is based on autobiographical stories recently published by the online community of the women who immigrated to Israel from the USSR/FSU as children or adolescents (Generation 1.5) in the early 1990s. Despite its self-selected nature, this story-telling project captures many generic features of the Russian-Israeli (and other) immigrant experiences. These stories form a collective narrative featuring trauma, coping and eventual victory – a discursive plot quite typical for contemporary Israeli therapeutic culture. In the age of identity politics, ethnic trauma becomes a political tool deployed in the struggle for recognition by different immigrant and minority groups. The discourse of trauma, resilience and overcoming/catharsis incorporates immigrants in the local discourse, letting them negotiate their identity and claim full belonging. Thus, ethnic trauma emerges as a political resource to support immigrants’ claims of equal rights and demands for symbolic reparations.

这篇文章为民族创伤的概念奠定了基础了解移民危机及其后果。该分析基于最近由在线社区发布的自传故事，这些妇女在 1990 年代初期作为儿童或青少年（1.5 代）从苏联/前苏联移民到以色列。尽管它具有自我选择的性质，但这个讲故事的项目捕捉了俄罗斯-以色列（和其他）移民经历的许多一般特征。这些故事形成了一个以创伤、应对和最终胜利为特征的集体叙事——这是当代以色列治疗文化非常典型的话语情节。在身份政治时代，种族创伤成为不同移民和少数群体在争取承认的斗争中部署的政治工具。创伤、复原力和克服/宣泄的话语将移民纳入当地话语，让他们协商自己的身份并声称完全属于他们。因此，种族创伤作为一种政治资源出现，以支持移民对平等权利的主张和象征性赔偿的要求。