This book focuses on the social phenomenon of migrations and human mobility in their socio-cultural, ethnological and linguistic aspects, showing the historical roots, specifics and stages of development, with the example of the Balkans and the diaspora of Balkan people scattered in different directions and on different continents. This issue became even more up-to-date in the last decade of the 20th century, a “decade of transition” for Eastern Europe, characterised by the movement of new waves of emigrants and gastarbeiters to Western Europe, America and Australia. We are faced with an ever increasing diversity and intensity of the movement of people, information, goods and services, both within the separate Balkan states and across their borders. Often, current social processes demonstrate a clear continuity with traditional social practices and cultural patterns; referring to a “Balkan culture of migrations and mobility” is becoming more and more justified.
Introduction.............................................................................................................................7
Labour Migration and Transnationalism in the Balkans. A Historical Perspective.......11
Ulf Brunnbauer
Transborder Mobility, Ethnic Groups and Boundaries along the Albanian-Greek Frontier since the 1990s.....................................................................25
Vassilis Nitsiakos
“Not a Soul Can Plan to return for sure!”Double Homing Desire of Croatian Migrants in Germany...............................................38
Jasna Čapo
Migrants in Europe: between Integration and Disintegration, in the Context of Contemporary Contradictions and Paradoxes.....................................48
Karmen Medica
Travelling, Balkanism, Orientalism and the Photograph in the 19th and Early 20th Century.................................................................................................................60
Karl Kaser
Identities in Frame: Photography and the Construction of a “National Body” in Bulgaria (approx. 1860 to World War I)...................................73
Anelia Kassabova
Balkan Migrations: Types and Trends................................................................................87
Anna Krasteva
The Road of Turkish Immigrants Towards the EU...........................................................96
Valentina Sharlanova
The Emigration of the Turks from Dobrudzha between the two World Wars: Important Moments.......................................................................107
Constantin Iordan
Migration, Household and Decision-Making Conflicts: the Case of Albanians from the Republic of Macedonia.................................................115
Ivaylo Markov
Keeping Feet in Two Worlds? Everyday Experiences of Female Migrants from Macedonia to Italy...........................130
Karolina Bielenin-Lenczowska
Refugee Women in Bulgaria: Identities in Motion..........................................................142
Evgenia Troeva
Dissolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Migration of New Minorities From and To Newly Formed States.........................152
Marijeta Rajković Iveta
The Impact of Migration on the Cultural Heritage and Identity.The Example of the Croatian (Sub)Ethnic Group Bunjevci...........................................163
Milana Černelić
The Identity of the Migrants from Shopluk in the New Environments of Other Parts of Bulgaria, Serbia and Macedonia.........................................................180
Zoranco Malinov
The Influence of Migrations and Contact with Others on the Origin of the Name of the Croatian Sub-Ethnic Group Šokci....................................................192
Marinko Vuković
Migrations and New “Old” Identities: Balkan Patterns.................................................206
Petko Hristov
Romanian Female Migration to Northeast Serbia.......................................................217
Annemarie Sorescu-Marinković
Romanians in the Serbian Banat: Imagining Romania and the West...........................232
Biljana Sikimić
Subjectivity and Migration: Adventists in Northern Dobrudzha..................................246
Stelu Şerban
Bulgarian Market Gardeners in the Vicinity of Bucharest – Traditions and the Present.................................................................................................261
Valentina Vaseva
Identity of (Trans-) National Minorities in the Nation Building Process (the Case of Ukraine)..........................................................................................................269
Ekaterina Anastasova
Migrations from the Village to the City and the Identity of Bessarabian Bulgarians...279
Zhenia Pimpireva
What is “Our” Tradition? Models and Practices of Identity Construction among the Bulgarian Diaspora in South-western Ukraine.....................288
Elena Petrova
The Bulgarians “Down Under” – Home and Away.........................................................299
Elya Tzaneva
Language as a Border: the Case of Bulgarian Emigrants in the United Kingdom............312
Mila Maeva
Migrant Networks and Social Chains between Bulgaria and Greece.The Case of Bulgarian Migrants in Greece......................................................................326
Tanya Dimitrova
Bulgarians in Croatia: Migrations, Presence, Identification Processes.........................342
Jadranka Grbić Jakopović
For Bread... Or for Something Else? (Bulgarian “contracted” labour migrations in former Czechoslovakia in the middle of the last century).......................350
Vladimir Penchev
The Migration “Village–City” and the Identity of Participants in the Youth Brigades in Dimitrovgrad – the First Bulgarian Socialist City.................359
Bilyana Raeva
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