Diasporas and Ethnic Migrants: Germany, Israel and Russia in Comparative PerspectiveRainer Munz, Rainer Ohliger Routledge, 2004 M08 2 - 472 pages This work adopts a comparative approach to explore interrelations between two phenomena which, so far, have rarely been examined and analysed together, namely the dynamics of diaspora and minority formation in Central and Eastern Europe on the one hand, and the diaspora migration on the other. |
Contents
A Comparative Perspective | 2 |
PART II THEORITICAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES | 16 |
2 From Diasporas to Migrantsfrom Migrants to Diasporas | 17 |
Between Self and Other? | 32 |
4 The American Model of Diasporic Discourse | 50 |
ETHNIC UNMIXING AND FORCED MIGRATIONS IN TWENTIETHCENTURY EUROPE | 67 |
Structural Factors and Agents of Ethnic Cleansing | 68 |
An Account of Expulsions in Europe | 87 |
Citizenship and Political Community in Estonia and Kazakhstan | 222 |
ETHNIC MIGRATION AND DIASPORA EXISTENCE IN TRANSITION | 241 |
15 Ethnic Germans in Central and Eastern Europe and their Return to Germany | 242 |
German Language Proficiency and its Impact on Integration | 253 |
The Transformation of State Priorities | 269 |
18 Who Organizes? The Political Opportunity Structure of CoEthnic Migrant Mobilization | 284 |
OLD DIASPORAS AND NEW IMMIGRANTS | 302 |
Returning Diaspora and NationBuilding | 303 |
Repatriation or Privileged Migration? | 100 |
NEW DIASPORAS AND ETHNIC MIGRANTS | 114 |
Migration and the Changing Nationality Composition of the Soviet Successor States | 115 |
The Return of Diasporas? | 141 |
10 Returning Home? Approaches to Repatriation and Migrant Resettlement in PostSoviet Russia | 160 |
The Immobility of the Russian Diaspora in the Baltics | 174 |
Ethnic Restructuring and its Aftermath in the Baltic states | 191 |
13 The RussianSpeaking Identity under the Latvian Language Policy | 206 |
The Jews from the Former Soviet Union in Israel | 315 |
The Formation of the Russian Community in Israel | 332 |
Russian Jewish Immigrants in Israel of the 1990s | 346 |
The Diasporization of Israel? | 360 |
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