Diasporas and Ethnic Migrants: German, Israel, and Post-Soviet Successor States in Comparative PerspectiveRainer Münz, Rainer Ohliger Psychology Press, 2003 - 460 pages This account of key issues in Israel's foreign policy offers a new insight into Israeli thinking. It also covers issues where the focus is on American, British, Egyptian and Jordanian diplomacy. The author's research is based on an abundance of documentary evidence, and the analysis benefits from his unique background as a senior diplomat for over 30 years and from his academic experience of over two decades. |
Contents
Diasporas and Ethnic Migrants in Twentieth Century Europe A Comparative Perspective | 3 |
THEORITICAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES | 19 |
From Diasporas to Migrants from Migrants to Diasporas | 21 |
Minority Existence in TwentiethCentury Central and Eastern Europe Between Self and Other? | 37 |
The American Model of Diasporic Discourse | 56 |
MAKING AND UNMAKING DIASPORAS ETHNIC UNMIXING AND FORCED MIGRATIONS IN TWENTIETHCENTURY EUROPE | 75 |
The Spell of the Homogeneous NationState Structural Factors and Agents of Ethnic Cleansing | 77 |
Ethnic Cleansing as an Invention of the Twentieth Century An Account of Expulsions in Europe | 98 |
Russians Abroad Citizenship and Political Community in Estonia and Kazakhstan | 238 |
GERMANY ETHNIC MIGRATION AND DIASPORA EXISTENCE IN TRANSITION | 259 |
Ethnic Germans in Central and Eastern Europe and their Return to Germany | 261 |
Young Ethnic German Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union German Language Proficiency and its Impact on Integration | 272 |
The Politicization of Ethnic German Immigrants The Transformation of State Priorities | 289 |
Who Organizes? The Political Opportunity Structure of CoEthnic Migrant Mobilization | 305 |
ISRAEL OLD DIASPORAS AND NEW IMMIGRANTS | 325 |
Immigration and Ethnicity in Israel Returning Diaspora and NationBuilding | 327 |
Ethnic Migrations of the 1990s from and to the Successor States of the Former Soviet Union Repatriation or Privileged Migration? | 112 |
RUSS1A AND THE POSTSOVIET SUCCESSOR STATES NEW DIASPORAS AND ETHNIC MIGRANTS | 129 |
The End of an Empire Migration and the Changing Nationality Composition of the Soviet Successor States | 131 |
The Dissolution of the Soviet Union and PostSoviet Ethnic Migration The Return of Diasporas? | 155 |
Returning Home? Approaches to Repatriation and Migrant Resettlement in PostSoviet Russia | 173 |
Social Citizenship and NonMigration The Immobility of the Russian Diaspora in the Baltics | 188 |
Todays Politics and Yesterdays Embitterments Ethnic Restructuring and its Aftermath in the Baltic states | 206 |
The RussianSpeaking Identity under the Latvian Language Policy | 221 |
Integration and the Social Dynamic of Ethnic Migration The Jews from the Former Soviet Union in Israel | 338 |
The Russian Language as a Base Factor The Formation of the Russian Community in Israel | 355 |
A Case Study in Transnationalism Russian Jewish Immigrants in Israel of the 1990s | 370 |
The End of Normality The Diasporization of Israel? | 385 |
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