Resilience of Lithuanian Diaspora to Rapid Assimilation: Europe, July 2024 – November 2025https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/ECRM2UStaponkutė, DaliaLithuanian Data Archive for SSH (LiDA)2026-03-302026-03-30T09:12:04Z<p>This dataset contains the data from interviews conducted in 2024–2025 with Lithuanian diaspora activists representing Lithuanian communities in Europe. The study aimed to identify the factors that determine the sustainability of Lithuanian identity among the descendants of Lithuanian emigrants in their countries of immigration. <p>The dataset includes interviews with representatives from the following communities:</p> <ol> <li>The Lithuanian Community in Ireland</li> <li>The Lithuanian Community in Belgium</li> <li>The Lithuanian Community in Denmark</li> <li>The Lithuanian Community in Iceland</li> <li>The Lithuanian Community in Spain</li> <li>The Lithuanian Community in Italy</li> <li>The Lithuanian Community in Israel</li> <li>The Lithuanian Community in the United Kingdom</li> <li>The Lithuanian Community in Cyprus</li> <li>The Lithuanian Community in Latvia</li> <li>The Lithuanian Community in Poland</li> <li>The Lithuanian Community in Luxembourg</li> <li>The Lithuanian Community in the Netherlands</li> <li>The Lithuanian Community in Norway</li> <li>The Lithuanian Community in France</li> <li>The Lithuanian Community in Sweden</li> <li>The Lithuanian Community in Switzerland</li> <li>The Lithuanian Community in Germany.</li> </ol> <b>To use this dataset, the user must obtain PERMISSION from the leader of the project "Demographic, economic, energetic, food, and epidemiological resilience of modern Lithuanian society and nation (1883-2023)" Professor Zenonas Norkus.</b> To ask for permission, write to <a href="mailto:data@ktu.lt">data@ktu.lt</a>.Arts and HumanitiesSocial Sciencesemigrantsnational identitymother tonguenative languages educationimmigration policyEnglishLithuanian2025-11-14Norkus, Zenonas (Institute of Sociology and Social Work, Faculty of Philosophy, Vilnius University, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0001-6364-0716])Žvaliauskas, Giedrius (Center for Data Analysis and Archiving (DAtA), Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0001-8970-0756])2025-12-132024-07-022025-11-1420242025<a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7152218" target="_blank"> Interview data: Semi-structured interviews</a> (LiDA Controlled Vocabulary for Types of Social Science Data)<a href="https://vocabularies.cessda.eu/vocabulary/KindOfData?code=Qualitative" target="_blank">Qualitative</a> (DDI Alliance CV for Kind of Data)BelgiumSwitzerlandCyprusGermanyDenmarkSpainFranceUnited KingdomIrelandIcelandIsraelItalyLuxembourgLatviaNetherlandsNorwayPolandSweden<p>The description of the dataset (<b>metadata</b>) is freely and openly available to both registered and unregistered users of the LiDA Dataverse repository under the terms of the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" target="_blank">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0)</a>.</p> <p>Access to LiDA processed <b>data</b> files containing a tag “Data” in their title is restricted. Access to the data is restricted due to confidentiality reasons (data contains personal or otherwise sensitive information) or contractual obligations (provided in the deposit agreement). Access to these files is granted by the LiDA Dataverse repository administrators upon request via email at <a href="mailto:data@ktu.lt">data@ktu.lt</a>. Users who are granted access to these files undertake to use them only for their own purposes and not to disclose them to any third parties.</p> <p>Files storing interview <b>questionnaires</b> and containing a tag “Questionnaire(s)” in their title are available to registered users of the LiDA Dataverse repository under the terms of the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0" target="_blank">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-SA 4.0)</a>.</p> <p>Access to files storing <b>LiDA internal documents</b> related to the published dataset, and containing a tag “Internal_documents” in their title, is not granted. These files are intended for internal LiDA use only.</p> <hr> <p>Duomenų rinkinio aprašas (<b>metaduomenys</b>) yra laisvai ir nemokamai prieinamas registruotiems ir neregistruotiems LiDA Dataverse talpyklos vartotojams pagal <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.lt" target="_blank">„Creative Commons“ Priskyrimo 4.0 tarptautinės licencijos (CC BY 4.0)</a> sąlygas.</p> <p>LiDA sutvarkyti <b>duomenų</b> failai, kurių pavadinime yra žyma „Data“, yra ribotos prieigos. Prieiga prie duomenų yra apribota dėl konfidencialumo (duomenyse yra asmeninės arba kitos neskelbtinos (jautrios) informacijos) arba sutartinių įsipareigojimų (numatytų deponavimo sutartyje). Prieigą prie šių failų suteikia LiDA Dataverse talpyklos valdytojai, gavę užklausą el. paštu <a href="mailto:data@ktu.lt">data@ktu.lt</a>. Vartotojai, kuriems suteikta prieiga prie šių failų, įsipareigoja juos naudoti tik savo reikmėms ir neperduoti trečiosioms šalims.</p> <p>Interviu <b>klausimynų</b> failai, kurių pavadinime yra žyma „Questionnaire(s)“, yra prieinami registruotiems LiDA Dataverse talpyklos vartotojams pagal <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.lt" target="_blank">„Creative Commons“ Priskyrimo – Analogiško platinimo 4.0 tarptautinės licencijos (CC BY-SA 4.0)</a> sąlygas.</p> <p>Prieiga prie failų, kuriuose saugomi <b>LiDA vidiniai dokumentai</b>, susiję su publikuotu duomenų rinkiniu, ir kurių pavadinime yra žyma „Internal_documents“, nėra suteikiama. Šie failai yra skirti vidiniam LiDA naudojimui.</p> <img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png"/> <img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/4.0/88x31.png"/>Vartotojai įsipareigoja neperduoti LiDA saugomų duomenų, prie kurių jiems suteikiama prieiga, trečiosioms šalims. <hr> Users undertake not to transfer data curated by the LiDA and to which they have been granted access to any third parties.