Diaspora Online
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Diaspora Online

Identity Politics and Romanian Migrants

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Diaspora Online

Identity Politics and Romanian Migrants

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Introduction
  6. PART I – DEPARTURES
  7. Chapter One ‘Land without Horizon’
  8. Chapter Two ‘Taking the Bull by the Horns’
  9. PART II – ARRIVALS
  10. Chapter Four ‘Nobody Wants to Know Me’
  11. PART III – POLITICS
  12. Chapter Six ‘Languishing in Purgatory’
  13. Chapter Seven ‘America, Romanian Land’
  14. PART IV – SECOND LIFE
  15. Conclusion The Story Is Still Being Written
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index