Diasporas and ethnic migrants : Germany, Israel, and post-Soviet successor states in comparative perspective / / editors, Rainer Munz and Rainer Ohliger

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783617903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; Portland, Or. : , : Frank Cass, , 2003
• ISBN: 1-135-75937-5; 1-135-75938-3; 0-7146-5232-6; 1-280-04596-5; 0-203-48627-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (442 p.)
• Collana: Routledge Studies in Nationalism and Ethnicity
• Altri autori (Persone): MunzRainer <1954->; OhligerRainer <1967->
• Disciplina: 304.8
• Soggetti: Emigration and immigration - History - 20th century; Minorities - History - 20th century; Ethnicity - History - 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-443) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Tables, Figures, Maps and Photographs; Acknowledgements; 1 Diasporas and Ethnic Migrants in Twentieth-Century Europe: A Comparative Perspective; 2 From Diasporas to Migrants-from Migrants to Diasporas; 3 Minority Existence in Twentieth-Century Central and Eastern Europe: Between Self and Other?; 4 The American Model of Diasporic Discourse; PART III MAKING AND UNMAKING DIASPORAS: ETHNIC UNMIXING AND FORCED MIGRATIONS IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY EUROPE; 5 The Spell of the Homogeneous Nation-State: Structural Factors and Agents of Ethnic Cleansing6 Ethnic Cleansing as an Invention of the Twentieth Century: An Account of Expulsions in Europe; 7 Ethnic Migrations of the 1990s from and to the Successor States of the Former Soviet Union: 'Repatriation' or Privileged Migration?; 8 The End of an Empire: Migration and the Changing Nationality Composition of the ; Soviet Successor States; 9 The Dissolution of the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Ethnic Migration: The Return of Diasporas?; 10 Returning Home? Approaches to Repatriation and Migrant Resettlement in Post-Soviet Russia11 Social Citizenship and Non-Migration: The Immobility of the Russian Diaspora in the Baltics; 12 Today's Politics and Yesterday's Embitterments: Ethnic Restructuring and its Aftermath in the Baltic states; 13 The Russian-Speaking Identity under the Latvian Language Policy; 14 Russians Abroad: Citizenship and Political Community in Estonia and Kazakhstan; 15 Ethnic Germans in Central and Eastern Europe and their Return to Germany; 16 Young Ethnic German Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union: German Language Proficiency and its Impact on Integration17 The Politicization of Ethnic German Immigrants: The Transformation of State Priorities; 18 Who Organizes? The Political Opportunity Structure of Co-Ethnic Migrant Mobilization; 19 Immigration and Ethnicity in Israel: Returning Diaspora and Nation-Building; 20 Integration and the Social Dynamic of Ethnic Migration: The Jews from the Former Soviet Union in Israel; 21 The Russian Language as a Base Factor: The Formation of the Russian Community in Israel; 22 A Case Study in Transnationalism: Russian Jewish Immigrants in Israel of the 1990s23 The End of 'Normality': The Diasporization of Israel?; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This work adopts a comparative approach to explore interrelations between two phenomena which, so far, have rarely been examined and analysed together, namely the dynamics of diaspora and minority formation in Central and Eastern Europe on the one hand, and the diaspora migration on the other.