1st Edition

Diaspora and Citizenship

Edited By Claire Sutherland, Elena Barabantseva Copyright 2012
128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

This collection of papers discusses the impact of diasporas on the articulations and practices of legal, political, cultural and social citizenship in their country of origin. While the majority of current citizenship debates focus on the challenges and directions in which diasporic and migrant communities impact on the citizenship regime in their country of settlement, the papers in this volume... Read more

1. Diaspora and Citizenship: Introduction Elena Barabantseva and Claire Sutherland

2. Making of Greece Abroad: Continuity and Change in the Modern Diaspora Politics of a "Historical" Irredentist Homeland Elpida Vogli

3. Experimenting with Diasporic Incorporation: The Overseas Citizenship of India Constantino Xavier

4. Russia and Post-Soviet "Russian Diaspora": Contrasting Visions, Conflicting Projects Natalya Kosmarskaya

5. Perpetual Diaspora, Changing Homelands: The Construction of Russian-Speaking Jews as a Diaspora of Both Israel and Russia Illa Ben-Porat

6. From Diaspora to Diaspora: The Case of Transylvanian Saxons in Romania and Germany James Koranyi and Ruth Wittlinger

Biography

Claire Sutherland is a lecturer in Southeast Asian Politics, School of Government and International Relations, Durham University.

Elena Barabantseva is a Research Fellow/Lecturer in Chinese Politics, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester.