| Description |
xv, 201 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Research in migration and ethnic relations series |
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Research in migration and ethnic relations series.
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| Contents |
The relativisation of distance -- Long-distance nationalism -- Methodology and research design -- Historical note -- Sample characteristics -- The size and representativeness of the research setting -- Fieldwork update -- The war and its impact on the outcome of this research -- Plan of the book -- History, homeland, nostalgia -- The European post-Second World War refugee problem -- Slovenians in Argentina -- Memory ... -- Innocence ... -- Political migrants and their contribution to the formation of a distinct diaspora identity in Australia -- Homeland, nostalgia and the myth of return -- The elusive concept of homeland -- The ethnic homeland: the questions of time and space -- Nostalgia -- Ideas about homeland -- Romanticism -- second generation respondents -- Parents' romanticism through their children's eyes -- The second generation's critical attitudes towards the ethnic homeland -- The myth of return -- Second generation Croatian respondents' reflections on first generation Australian-Croatians: returning home -- Second generation Slovenian respondents' reflections on first generation Slovenians: returning home -- Second generation Croatians and Slovenians -- returning home -- Diasporas and community sentiments -- Some limitations of the prevalent discourses on ethnic communities -- Ethnic community boundaries and the segmentation of ethnic community space -- Politics, otherness and diasporas -- Conforming to norms and standards in diaspora organisations -- From antagonism to schism -- Diaspora cohesion and the question of generations |
| Summary |
"How strong and how significant is the interaction between migrants and homelands in the late 20th century? Have the processes of globalisation and transnational interaction produced new forms of nationalism or at least altered the old ones? By using Croatians and Slovenians in Australia as examples, this volume examines the extent to which migrants are influenced by historical and contemporary processes of migration mediated through political and cultural symbolism. What are the factors which influence the existence, nature and intensity of ethno-nationalism in the migrant context? The study analyses both the existence and transmission of ethno nationalism between migrant settings and homelands and specifically deals with the transmission of ethno-nationalist sentiments across migrant generations |
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To understand the effects and consequences of long distance nationalism fully, this book proceeds from an analysis of nationalism's public manifestations to an analysis of the relatively private domain of diasporic ethno-communal existence."--BOOK JACKET |
| Analysis |
Australian ethnic groups |
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Immigration |
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Slovenia |
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Croatia |
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Nationalism |
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Cultural identity |
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Political participation |
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Social isolation |
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Attitudes |
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Second generation migrants |
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Australia overseas comparisons |
| Notes |
Series title from cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-201) |
| Subject |
Slovenes -- Australia.
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Ethnocentrism.
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Ethnic relations -- Political aspects.
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Nationalism.
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Croats -- Australia.
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Serbs -- Australia.
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Immigrants -- Australia.
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Ethnicity -- Australia.
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Nationalism -- Australia.
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Croats -- Australia -- Ethnic identity.
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Slovenes -- Australia -- Ethnic identity.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Emigration and immigration.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007504
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| LC no. |
99073633 |
| ISBN |
1859726720 |
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9781859726723 |
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