Introduction: Ethnography of transnational migrants at home -- The cultural production of "transnational locals" in theory and (of) practice -- Ethnicity and migration after communism -- History and the politics of representation : Greek ethnicity in southern Russia -- Making sense of home and homeland : motivations and strategies for a transnational migrant circuit -- Transnationalisation, materialisation, and commoditisation of ethnicity -- The transnational family : re-shaping kinship and genealogy -- A place called "home" : property ownership, legitimacy and local identification of migrants in home communities -- Becoming Pontic Greeks -- The Pontic Greek cultural revival : a global network and local concerns -- Conclusion: Local lives of transnational migrants
Summary
"This book addresses the issue of emerging transnationalism in the conditions of post-socialism through focussing on migrants' identity as a social construction resulting from their experience of the 'transnational circuit of culture' as well as from post-Soviet shifts in political and economic conditions in their home regions"--Provided by publisher
