Remigration to Post-Socialist Europe
Remigration to Post-Socialist Europe

Author: Caroline Hornstein Tomic

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published: 2018-07

Total Pages: 467

ISBN-13: 3643910258

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Returning migrants have been involved in post-socialist transformation processes all across Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Engaged in politics, the economy, science and education, arts and civil society, return migrants have often exerted crucial influence on state and nation-building processes and on social and cultural transformations. However, remigration not only comprises stories of achievements, but equally those of failed integration, marginalization, non-participation and lost potential - these are mostly stories untold. The contributions to this volume shed light on processes of return migration to various Eastern and Southeastern European countries from multidisciplinary perspectives. Particular attention is paid to anthropological approaches that aim to understand the complexities of return migration from individual perspectives.

Surviving Post-Socialism
Surviving Post-Socialism

Author: Sue Bridger

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-01-11

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1135107157

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This book focuses on survival strategies developed at local levels in response to changing cultural, political and economic structures in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. An interdisciplinary approach is adopted as the contributors engage with questions of gender, ethnicity, migration, nationalism, employment and labour patterns and changing family structures.

Return Migration and Regional Development in Europe
Return Migration and Regional Development in Europe

Author: Robert Nadler

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-30

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1137575093

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This book assesses recent migration patterns in Europe, which have significantly included 'return migration' against the stream of East-West migration. Since the Eastern enlargement of the EU, many regions of Central and Eastern European have experienced a loss of human resources in core industries, raising concerns about social, economic and territorial cohesion in the region. The success rates of national and regional governmental policy aiming to retain or re-attract skilled workers have been variable, yet return migration has emerged as a major element of migration flows. Bringing together leading researchers on this important topic in contemporary European geography, the contributors analyse a series of key issues. These include: theoretical frameworks in the field of return migration; the nexus between return migration and regional development; the effects of the global and European crisis on emigration and return migration; non-economic motivations for emigration and return; the intergenerational character of return migration, and; the reintegration of return migrants into post-socialist societies. Taken together, the chapters see return migrants as important agents of change, innovation and economic growth. The book will be of great interest for scholars and students of human, economic and political geography.

Youth and Social Change in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
Youth and Social Change in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Author: Charles Walker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 1135701245

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Two decades have now passed since the revolutions of 1989 swept through Eastern Europe and precipitated the collapse of state socialism across the region, engendering a period of massive social, economic and political transformation. This book explores the ways in which young people growing up in post-socialist Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union negotiate a range of identities and transitions in their personal lives against a backdrop of thoroughgoing transformation in their societies. Drawing upon original empirical research in a range of countries, the book's contributors explore the various freedoms and insecurities that have accompanied neo-liberal transformation in post-socialist countries - in spheres as diverse as consumption, migration, political participation, volunteering, employment and family formation - and examine the ways in which they have begun to re-shape different aspects of young people's lives. In addition, while 'social change' is a central theme of the issue, all of the chapters in the collection indicate that the new opportunities and risks faced by young people continue both to underpin and to be shaped by familiar social and spatial divisions, not only within and between the countries addressed, but also between 'East' and 'West'. This book was originally published as a special issue of Journal of Youth Studies.

Mobilities in Socialist and Post-Socialist States
Mobilities in Socialist and Post-Socialist States

Author: K. Burrell

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-09-23

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1137267291

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This interdisciplinary collection explores what mobility meant, and still means, in the specific contexts of Soviet and East European socialist and post-socialist societies. Together the chapters consider diverse practices of mobility and their different contexts of power, resistance and inequality.

Logics and Politics of Post-WWII Migration to Western Europe
Logics and Politics of Post-WWII Migration to Western Europe

Author: Anthony M. Messina

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9781107174481

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Few phenomena have been more disruptive to West European politics and society than the accumulative experience of post-WWII immigration. Against this backdrop spring two questions: Why have the immigrant-receiving states historically permitted high levels of immigration? To what degree can the social and political fallout precipitated by immigration be politically managed? Utilizing evidence from a variety of sources, this study explores the links between immigration and the surge of popular support for anti-immigrant groups; its implications for state sovereignty; its elevation to the policy.

Emotions, Senses and Affects in the Context of Southeast Europe
Emotions, Senses and Affects in the Context of Southeast Europe

Author: Klaus Roth

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published:

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 3643913192

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This volume focuses on emotions of people in Southeast Europe. Grief and sadness take on different forms of expression. In the era of socialist rule laughter could express political resistance; for labour migrants visiting their country of origin evokes feelings of being at home. Cities attract visitors by appealing to emotions and people try to relive times of national glory by historical re-enactments. Gossip is a means of expressing emotions, smells and rituals become expressions of remembered emotions. Emotions are a factor researchers must always take seriously, both of the people studied and their own.

Research and Innovation Forum 2021
Research and Innovation Forum 2021

Author: Anna Visvizi

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-09-20

Total Pages: 609

ISBN-13: 3030843114

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This book features research presented and discussed during the Research and Innovation Forum (Rii Forum) 2021. The Covid-19 pandemic and its social, political, and economic implications had confirmed that a more thorough debate on these issues and topics was needed. For this reason, the Rii Forum 2021 was devoted to the broadly defined question of the short- and long-term impact of the pandemic on our societies. This volume serves as an essential resource to understand the diverse ways in which Covid-19 impacted our societies, including the capacity to innovate, advances in technology, the evolution of the healthcare systems, business model innovation, the prospects of growth, the stability of political systems, and the future of education.

The Migration of Albanians from Montenegro and Kosovo to the United States
The Migration of Albanians from Montenegro and Kosovo to the United States

Author: Klement R. Camaj

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-10-08

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 1040160131

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This book examines the ways in which Albanian men, women, and families who have migrated from Montenegro and Kosovo to the United States understand and make sense of their mobility and settlement. Drawing on empirical research, including interview material, it goes beyond the experiences of individual migrants to explore the role that cultural identity has in shaping their mobility and immobility, with particular attention to the manner in which subjects talk about their experiences in terms of past and present movements and moments. An original storytelling study of the meaning, scope, and outcomes of mobility, and the construction of home and identity on the part of migrants, this title will appeal to scholars of sociology, geography, anthropology, and politics with interests in migration and diaspora.