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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798660303321

Autore

Sanders Rita

Titolo

Staying at home : identities, memories and social networks of Kazakhstani Germans / / Rita Sanders

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2016

©2016

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Collana

Integration and Conflict Studies

Disciplina

305.8310584

Soggetti

Germans - Kazakhstan - Ethnic identity

Germans - Kazakhstan - Social conditions

Collective memory - Kazakhstan

Transnationalism - Social aspects - Kazakhstan

Social networks - Kazakhstan

Social networks - Germany

Kazakhstan Ethnic relations

Kazakhstan Emigration and immigration

Kazakhstan Relations Germany

Germany Relations Kazakhstan

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Kazakhstani Germans and the Study of Nationalities in Central Asia -- Part I: Memories, Histories and Life Stories -- Memories and Histories -- The Enmeshment of Identities and Life Stories -- Part II: Nationality, Power and Change -- Assessing Nationality -- Everyday Nationality in the Kazakh Nation-State -- Part III: Non-Migrants' Social Ties -- Relations in the Locality : Ethnic Mixing and Missing Kazakhs -- Disruption in the Transnational Social Field -- Part IV: The Effect of Two States' Policies of "Germanness" on Kazakhstani Germans -- Changing Transnational Institutions -- The Divergent Ethnic Policies of Kazakhstan and Germany -- Conclusion: Germans at Home in Kazakhstan -- Appendix.

Sommario/riassunto

"Despite economic growth in Kazakhstan, more than 80 per cent of



Kazakhstan's ethnic Germans have emigrated to Germany to date. Disappointing experiences of the migrants, along with other aspects of life in Germany, have been transmitted through transnational networks to ethnic Germans still living in Kazakhstan. Consequently, Germans in Kazakhstan today feel more alienated than ever from their 'historic homeland.' This book explores the interplay of those memories, social networks and state policies, which play a role in the 'construction' of a Kazakhstani German identity--From publisher's website.