Title Citizens without borders : Yugoslavia and its migrant workers in Western Europe / Brigitte Le Normand

Published Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 286 pages) : color illustrations Contents Introduction -- Part I: Seeing Migrants -- Seeing Migration like a State -- Picturing Migrants: The Gastarbajter in Yugoslav Film. Part II: Building Ties -- A Listening Ear: Cultivating Citizens through Radio Broadcasting -- A Nation Talking to Itself: Yugoslav Newspapers for Migrants -- Weaving a Web of Transnational Governance: Yugoslav Workers' Associations -- Migrants Talk Back: Responses to Surveys -- Building a Transnational Education System for the Second Generation -- They Felt the Breath of the Homeland -- Conclusion Summary "Among Eastern Europe's postwar socialist states, Yugoslavia was unique in allowing its citizens to seek work abroad in Western Europe's liberal democracies. This book charts the evolution of the relationship between Yugoslavia and its labour migrants who left to work in Western Europe in the 1960s and 1970s. It examines how migrants were perceived by policy-makers and social scientists and how they were portrayed in popular culture, including radio, newspapers, and cinema. Created to nurture ties with migrants and their children, state cultural, educational, and informational programs were a way of continuing to govern across international borders. These programs relied heavily on the promotion of the idea of homeland. Le Normand examines the many ways in which migrants responded to these efforts and how they perceived their own relationship to the homeland, based on their migration experiences. Citizens without Borders shows how, in their efforts to win over migrant workers, the different levels of government --federal, republic, and local--promoted sometimes widely divergent notions of belonging, grounded in different concepts of "home.""-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 23, 2021) Subject Yugoslavs -- Europe, Western -- History -- 20th century Foreign workers -- Government policy -- Yugoslavia -- History -- 20th century Popular culture -- Yugoslavia -- History -- 20th century Transnationalism -- Political aspects -- Yugoslavia -- History -- 20th century HISTORY / Europe / Eastern Foreign workers -- Government policy Popular culture Yugoslavs Western Europe Yugoslavia Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781487536381 1487536380 9781487536374 1487536372

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