Greek Diaspora and Migration since 1700

✍ Scribed by Dimitris Tziovas, Dimitris Tziovas

• Publisher: Ashgate
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 324
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Greek diaspora is one of the paradigmatic historical diasporas. Though some trace its origins to ancient Greek colonies, it is really a more modern phenomenon. Diaspora, exile and immigration represent three successive phases in Modern Greek history and they are useful vantage points from which to analyse changes in Greek society, politics and culture over the last three centuries. Embracing a wide range of case studies, this volume charts the role of territorial displacements as social and cultural agents from the eighteenth century to the present day and examines their impact on communities, politics, institutional attitudes and culture. By studying migratory trends the aim is to map out the transformation of Greece from a largely homogenous society with a high proportion of emigrants to a more diverse society inundated by immigrants after the end of the Cold War. The originality of this book lies in the bringing together of diaspora, exile and immigration and its focus on developments both inside and outside Greece.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 7
List of Tables......Page 11
List of Contributors......Page 13
Introduction......Page 19
Acknowledgements......Page 17
PART I Society and Politics
1. The Emigré Experience: Case Studies......Page 33
1 Tales from the Dark Side: Transnational Migration, the Underworld and the ‘Other’ Greeks of the Diaspora......Page 35
2 Silent Minority: The Greek Community of Eighteenth-Century London......Page 49
3 Greek Merchants in Victorian England......Page 63
4 Repatriation, Migration or Readjustment: Egyptian Greek Dilemmas of the 1950s......Page 79
5 Searching for a Motherland: Slav-Macedonian Political Refugees in the People’s Republic of Macedonia(1944–2003)......Page 91
6 No Place is (like) Home: Mobilities, Memories and Metamorphoses of Greek Migrants in Denmark......Page 101
PART I Society and Politics
2. National Centre and Transnational Periphery......Page 115
7 A Greece for Greeks by Descent? Nineteenth-Century Policy on Integrating the Greek Diaspora......Page 117
8 Defining the Changing Boundaries of Greek Nationality......Page 129
9 ‘Deterritorialising’ the Nation: the Greek State and ‘Ecumenical Hellenism’......Page 143
10 The Limits of Political Transnationalism: The Greek-American Lobby 1970s–1990s......Page 159
Part II Literature and Culture......Page 173
11 Indigenous Foreigners: The Greek Diaspora and Travel Writing (1880–1930)......Page 175
12 Between Language, Land and Empire: Humanist and Orientalist Perspectives on Egyptian-Greek Identity......Page 195
13 The Poetics of Transit: Exile, Diaspora and Repatriation in Stratis Tsirkas’s Novels......Page 211
14 ‘Be it Ever so Humble’: Nostalgia for Home and the Problem of Return in Post-War Greek Novels......Page 223
15 The Politics of Memory in the Fiction of Greek Political Exiles in Eastern Europe......Page 233
16 The Return of Nikitas Randos: Satire, Memory and Otherness in the Post-War Poetry of Nicolas Calas......Page 247
17 The Topos of Home in New Greek-American Writing......Page 257
18 Repatriation on Screen: National Culture and the Immigrant Other since the 1990s......Page 273
19 The Diaspora Sings Back: Rebetika Down Under......Page 289
Index......Page 303