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Title Diasporas and ethnic migrants : Germany, Israel, and post-Soviet successor states in comparative perspective / editors, Rainer Münz and Rainer Ohliger
Published London ; Portland, OR : Frank Cass, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 460 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Nationalism and ethnicity, 1462-9755
Cass series--nationalism and ethnicity.
Contents Diasporas and ethnic migrants in twentieth-century Europe : a comparative perspective / Rainer Ohliger and Rainer Münz -- From diasporas to migrants, migrants to diasporas / Gabriel Sheffer -- Minority existence in twentieth-century central and eastern Europe : between self and other? / Rainer Ohliger -- The American model of diasporic discourse / Khachig Tölöyan -- The spell of the homogeneous nation-state : structural factors and agents of ethnic cleansing / Philipp Ther -- Ethnic cleansing as an invention of the twentieth century : an account of expulsions in Europe / Karl Schlögel -- Ethnic migrations of the 1990s from and to the successor states of the former Soviet Union : "repatriation" or privileged migration? / Anne de Tinguy -- The end of an empire : migration and the changing nationality composition of the Soviet successor states / Tim Heleniak -- The dissolution of the Soviet Union and post-Soviet ethnic migration : the return of diasporas? / Anatoly Vishnevsky -- Returning home? : approaches to repatriation and migrant resettlement in post-Soviet Russia / Moya Flynn -- Social citizenship and non-migration : the immobility of the Russian diaspora in the Baltics / Wim van Meurs -- Today's politics and yesterday's embitterments : ethnic restructuring and its aftermath in the Baltic states / Dovilé Budryté -- The Russian-speaking identity under the Latvian language policy / Jekaterina Dorodnova -- Russians abroad : citizenship and political community in Estonia and Kazakhstan -- Jacqueline McLaren-Miller -- Ethnic Germans in central and eastern Europe and their return to Germany / Rainer Münz -- Young ethnic German immigrants from the former Soviet Union : German language proficiency and its impact on integration / Heike Roll -- The politicization of ethnic German immigrants : the transformation of state priorities / Daniel Levy -- Who organizes? : the political opportunity structure of co-ethnic migrant mobilization / Amanda Klekowski von Koppekfels -- Immigration and ethnicity in Israel : returning diaspora and nation-building / Moshe Semyonov and Noah Lewin-Epstein -- Immigration and social dynamic of ethnic migration : the Jews from the former Soviet Union in Israel / William Berthomière -- The Russian language as a base factor : the formation of the Russian community in Israel / Marina Niznik -- A case study in transnationalism : Russian Jewish immigrants in Israel of the 1990s / Larissa I. Remennik -- The end of "normality" : the diasporization of Israel? / William Safran
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-443) and index
Notes English
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Subject Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies
Minorities -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies
Ethnicity -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
Emigration and immigration
Ethnicity
Minorities
Genre/Form Electronic books
Case studies
History
Form Electronic book
Author Münz, Rainer, 1954-
Ohliger, Rainer, 1967-
ISBN 0203486277
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