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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807293803321

Autore

Trandafoiu Ruxandra

Titolo

Diaspora online [[electronic resource] ] : identity politics and Romanian migrants / / Ruxandra Trandafoiu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2013

ISBN

0-85745-944-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Disciplina

304.8

Soggetti

Romanians - Foreign countries

Romanians - Migrations

Romanians - Ethnic identity

Romanians - Cultural assimilation

Emigration and immigration - Technological innovations

Identity politics - Romania

Romania Emigration and immigration

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. [199]-210) and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Departures -- pt. II. Arrivals -- pt. III. Politics -- pt. IV. Second life.

Sommario/riassunto

After the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, millions of Romanians emigrated in search of work and new experiences; they became engaged in an interrogation of what it meant to be Romanian in a united Europe and the globalized world. Their thoughts, feelings and hopes soon began to populate the virtual world of digital and mobile technologies. This book chronicles the online cultural and political expressions of the Romanian diaspora using websites based in Europe and North America. Through online exchanges, Romanians perform new types of citizenship, articulated from the margins of the politic