Introduction: Ethnography of transnational migrants at home -- 1. The cultural production of "transnational locals" in theory and (of) practice -- 2. Ethnicity and migration after communism -- 3. History and the politics of representation : Greek ethnicity in southern Russia -- 4. Making sense of home and homeland : motivations and strategies for a transnational migrant circuit -- 5. Transnationalisation, materialisation, and commoditisation of ethnicity -- 6. The transnational family : re-shaping kinship and genealogy -- 7. A place called "home" : property ownership, legitimacy and local identification of migrants in home communities -- 8. Becoming Pontic Greeks -- 9. The Pontic Greek cultural revival : a global network and local concerns -- Conclusion: Local lives of transnational migrants.
"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
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