Diaspora online : identity politics and Romanian migrants
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Diaspora online : identity politics and Romanian migrants
Berghahn, 2013
- : hardback
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 199-210
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
After the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, millions of Romanians emigrated in search of work and new experiences; they became engaged in an interrogation of what it meant to be Romanian in a united Europe and the globalized world. Their thoughts, feelings and hopes soon began to populate the virtual world of digital and mobile technologies. This book chronicles the online cultural and political expressions of the Romanian diaspora using websites based in Europe and North America. Through online exchanges, Romanians perform new types of citizenship, articulated from the margins of the political field. The politicization of their diasporic condition is manifested through written and public protests against discriminatory work legislation, mobilization, lobbying, cultural promotion and setting up associations and political parties that are proof of the gradual institutionalization of informal communications. Online discourse analysis, supplemented by interviews with migrants, poets and politicians involved in the process of defining new diasporic identities, provide the basis of this book, which defines the new cultural and political practices of the Romanian diaspora.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I - DEPARTURES
The 'Great Escape': Defining Emigration as Social Transition and 'Natural Selection'
Chapter 1. 'Land Without Horizon': The Post-communist Transition and Emigration as Political Act
Chapter 2. 'Taking the Bull by the Horns': Migrant Pathology and the Role of Diasporic Websites
PART II - ARRIVALS
'Bread Tastes Better at Home': The (Il)liberal Paradox of Western Societies
Chapter 3. 'Waking up among Strangers': Translation, Adaptation, Participation
Chapter 4. 'Nobody Wants to Know Me': Immigration Controls and Diasporic Associative Models
PART III - POLITICS
Diasporans Unite: Identity Politics and the Romanian Diaspora
Chapter 5. 'Brothers, We Need to Do Something!': Online Activism and the Politicization of the Diaspora
Chapter 6. 'Languishing in Purgatory': The Politics of Location and Homeland
Chapter 7. 'America, Romanian Land': Diasporic Identity Politics in the United States and Canada
PART IV - SECOND LIFE
'Voir, c'est avoir a distance'
Chapter 8. Diaspora Online: Hierarchies and Rules
Conclusion: The Story Is Still Being Written
Bibliography
Index
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