Culture, Ethnicity and Migration After Communism: The Pontic Greeks

ISBN-13: 9780367596415 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 218 str.

Anton Popov

Opis

This study demonstrates how migrants employ their ethnicity as symbolic capital available for investment in transnational migration. Simultaneously they rework their practices of family networking, property relations and political participation in a way which strengthens their attachment to the local territory. The findings presented in the book im

Spis treści

Introduction: ethnography of transnational migrants at home

1. The cultural production of ‘transnational locals’ in theory and (of) practice

2. Ethnicity and migration after communism

3. History and the politics of representation: Greek ethnicity in southern Russia

4. Making sense of home and homeland: motivations and strategies for a transnational migrant circuit

5. Transnationalisation, materialisation, and commoditisation of ethnicity

6. The transnational family: re-shaping kinship and genealogy

7. A place called ‘home’: property ownership, legitimacy and local identification of migrants in home communities

8. Becoming Pontic Greeks; The Pontic Greek cultural revival: a global network and local concerns

9. Conclusion: local lives of transnational migrants

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O autorze

Anton Popov is Lecturer in Sociology at Aston University, UK. His research interests include sociological and anthropological approaches to globalisation, migration, identity and transnationalism; ethnicity; youth culture; multiculturalism and minority rights.