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Culture, Ethnicity and Migration After Communism: The Pontic Greeks book cover

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Culture, Ethnicity and Migration After Communism The Pontic Greeks

By Anton Popov Copyright 2016
232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge
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This book addresses the issue of emerging transnationalism in the conditions of post-socialism through focusing on migrants’ identity as a social construction resulting from their experience of the ‘transnational circuit of culture’ as well as from post-Soviet shifts in political and economic conditions in their home regions. Anton Popov draws upon ethnographic research conducted among Greek... Read more

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



Bibliography



Index

Biography

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.

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