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Hess, Christin. "What Are “Reverse Diasporas” and How Are We to Understand Them?" Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 17, no. 3 (2014): 288–315. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/diaspora.17.3.288.
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This article presents empirical evidence from two contemporary diasporas to support the thesis that formal return to the homeland does not necessarily “unmake” diasporas, as some scholars have previously suggested. I argue that, instead, so-called reverse diaspora formation processes take place, with important repercussions for the acculturation of co-ethnic immigrants in their nominal “homelands.” This article focuses on this latter issue, primarily on processes of identity formation and notions of belonging and home, which are particularly meaningful in the context of this diasporic “homecoming.” It draws on the structured comparison of the ethnic Greek and ethnic German diasporas from the former Soviet Union who moved to Greece and Germany after perestroika. Despite their rich and illuminating analogies and overlaps, these two diaspora groups have never been compared and contrasted before. After a brief historical contextualization, complicated processes of identity negotiation and belonging in the putative “historical homelands” are investigated comparatively, lending credence to the idea that “reverse” German and Greek diasporas have developed within (and often in conflict with) contemporary Greek and German societies. The fact that they occur simultaneously in both countries tends to suggest that the concept of reverse diaspora is an important one that needs closer attention from scholars in the future. The article concludes by outlining how we may conceptualize a reverse diaspora, based on existing definitions of diaspora. My research materials consist of in-depth qualitative data collected over the course of six years by means of eighty-one semi-structured interviews in Russian, German, and Greek with migrants and experts in Greece and Germany, embedded in ethnographic research and supplemented by statistical data.
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Dr. Sunil Kumar Dwivedi. "Mapping the Exploration of Identity and Diasporic Belonging: A Literary Study of the Discourse in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Whereabouts." Creative Launcher 8, no. 2 (2023): 107–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2023.8.2.14.
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Diaspora is studied in the historical and ethical background of migration of human beings. It is well known for its dislocation, disorientation, uprooted culture, fractured identity, multilingual or multicultural aspects of learning in the history of human migration. It has been studied in the different fields of knowledge and theory, having significant causes and effects of new exploration. In literature, it is studied with the straddle culture of human beings. Most of the diasporas are found unexplainable in the matter of identity formation. The literary and social term ‘diaspora’ is derived from Greek word ‘diaspeiro’ which means ‘to scatter’ or ‘to spread about’. It comprises of the Greek preposition ‘dia’ and verb ‘speiro’. Dia means ‘through’ or ‘between’ and ‘speiro’ means ‘to sow’ or ‘to scatter’. In this way, the word ‘diaspora’ means the scattering of population or the spreading of population across the region they are originated. The conceptual study of diaspora goes back to the human history and was initially used by the ancient Greeks to describe their scattering population all over the world. For the ancient Greeks, it was signified for migration and colonization. In the present context, ‘diaspora’ is read with the taste of modernity in the conceptualization of human migration, having actual feeling or feeling of others in the foreign landscapes. The present paper aims at the diasporic identity as well as the whereabouts of the narrator in the exploration of Jhumpa Lahiri in her latest novel, Whereabouts published in the Italian language in (2018) and translated by herself in (2021). By examining the characters’ quest for a sense of place, negotiation of cultural hybridity, and their grappling with multifaceted identities, this research aims to elucidate the nuanced tapestry of diasporic experiences evident in Lahiri’s literary corpus.
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Mavroudi, Elizabeth, and Cíntia Silva Huxter. "Young People in the Greek, Jewish and Palestinian Diasporas: Emotional Attachments to Multiple Homelands." Emotions: History, Culture, Society 6, no. 2 (2022): 237–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2208522x-02010166.
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Abstract This essay examines how children and young people aged 11–25 in the Jewish, Greek and Palestinian diasporas in England feel towards homelands, by exploring the range of emotions that homelands elicit. Using qualitative research with young people and their parents, the essay discusses and complicates assumptions around the relationships between diasporic youth and their homelands from the perspective of mainly second- and later-generation young people. In particular, the essay contributes to the growing realisation of the importance of emotions in diaspora, as it focuses on the complexities of belonging, attachment and identity. It adds to work which stresses the need for flexible notions of diaspora, in which people are positioned differently: in this case, young people who very much feel part of a diaspora and have differing and sometimes complicated relationships with the idea(l) and reality of a defined homeland.
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Tseligka, Eleni. "The Reterritorialisation of Pontic Greeks in Germany and the Modernisation of Tradition." Athens Journal of Social Sciences 10, no. 4 (2023): 257–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.30958/ajss.10-4-2.
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Greeks have a long diasporic history that demonstrates significant examples of all major diaspora classifications. Pontic Greeks of the Black Sea in particular, represent an excellent example of non-static diasporic typology. Starting as an imperial diaspora they were transformed to a victim diaspora, when forcefully expelled from their native lands in north-eastern Anatolia, seeking refuge in Greece and in areas of central Asia that were later annexed by the Soviet Union. Greece’s socioeconomic environment, during the better part of the twentieth century, was proven insufficient to support the full integration of refugees, while those Pontic Greeks who found themselves behind the Iron Curtain, were subjected to further victimization. In 1960 Greece signed a bilateral agreement with West Germany, allowing its citizens to seek Gastarbeiter employment, resulting in the formation of a Greek labour diaspora in the country, of which an estimated one third self-identifies as culturally Pontic. After Greece’s induction in the European Communities, but especially in the post-Maastricht era, the migratory regime for Greeks in Germany changed to that of European-expatriation, therefore progressively transforming their labour diaspora to a cultural one. From imperial, to victim, to labour, to cultural, Pontic Diaspora underwent a long process of reterritorialisation, in their journey from Anatolia to Germany.
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Stewart, Charles. "Forget Homi! Creolization, Omogéneia, and the Greek Diaspora." Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 15, no. 1 (2006): 61–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/diaspora.15.1.61.
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An early colonial model of creolization asked whether migrants to the New World underwent such drastic denaturing as to no longer be considered trustworthy compatriots. Homelands and their overseas colonies actively debated the moral meaning of change. In this essay, this structural model of creolization is applied to understand the relationship between the Greek state and its diaspora in the United States. That relationship has been governed by the ethnonationalist concept of omogéneia, which means “of the same génos or ancestry” but also “homogeneity.” In the twentieth century, omogeneís referred mainly to ethnic Greeks born and raised abroad and not possessing Greek citizenship. The idea of ethnic homogeneity became increasingly hard to sustain as Greek-Americans lost linguistic and cultural competence. The structural model of creolization guides the exploration of Greek homeland–diaspora negotiations of cultural and linguistic change in the American case. Greek-Americans are both ethnic Americans and diaspora Greeks at the same time. Although hybridity and creolization have been held up in postcolonial studies (e.g., Homi Bhabha) as productive of creative political agency, this study reveals a troubled dimension of creolization in the Greek diaspora. Omogéneia has implicitly become an othering term for those who are not linguistically and culturally competent according to homeland models and standards. A word that initially extended a welcome to ethnic Greeks left behind in Ottoman lands at independence in 1832 is now crumbling under the weight of its own contradictions.
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Panagakos, Anastasia N. "Citizens of the Trans-Nation: Political Mobilization, Multiculturalism, and Nationalism in the Greek Diaspora." Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 7, no. 1 (1998): 53–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/diaspora.7.1.53.
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In the early 1990s, the Greek diaspora experienced an exceptional period of political mobilization, sparked by the international community’s recognition of the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia as an independent state. While there is little contestation that Macedonia exists as a geographic area, who can claim Macedonian history and ethnic identity is much more problematic. The struggle to claim Macedonian identity has been fought between groups located in Greece, the Republic of Macedonia, Bulgaria, and the Greek and Macedonian diasporas, each group proclaiming themselves the true Macedonians. In the diaspora, this struggle has manifested itself through newspaper editorials, letter-writing campaigns, lobbying efforts, festivals, and political rallies.
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Çolak, Hasan. "Amsterdam's Greek merchants: protégés of the Dutch, beneficiaries of the Russians, subjects of the Ottomans and supporters of Greece." Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 42, no. 1 (2018): 115–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/byz.2017.19.
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Merchant diasporas have long attracted the attention of scholars through the narrow prisms of ‘nations’ and states. The history of Amsterdam's Greek Orthodox merchants, together with the other cases—who left the Ottoman Empire in the eighteenth century and established a seemingly controversial range of networks involving the Dutch, Russian, Ottoman and Greek states there—is an oft-quoted example. This article draws attention to some of the problematic aspects of these perceptions of the relations between states and diaspora merchants. The main tenet of the article is that nation- and state-centred perspectives are limited in explaining the full scope of flexibility and pragmatism displayed by the diaspora merchants.
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Anagnostou, Yiorgos. "Private and public partnerships: The Greek diaspora’s branding of Philotimo as identity." Journal of Greek Media & Culture 7, no. 1 (2021): 3–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jgmc_00025_1.
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This article recognizes the discourse of Philotimo as a prevalent mode of the diaspora’s representation of national identity in the context of the Greek debt crisis. It shows how this narrative adheres to the cultural technologies of nation branding to establish a positive Greek self-representation and in so doing, countering the crisis-related international devaluation of the national image. This cultural rehabilitation functions as a mode of governmentality: it seeks to shape the global perception of Greece and Greek identity for several interrelated purposes. First, in endowing value to Greek identity, it aims to restore national credibility and in turn cast Greece as an attractive destination for foreign investments. In this capacity, the narrative links national culture with global capitalism. Second, in redeeming the Greek nation as a moral nation, the branding fosters diaspora solidarity to Greece as a moral imperative. Notably, the purpose of the branding enterprise is not to merely disseminate a favourable image globally, but also to constitute Greek identity in the diaspora and Greece. Operating at the intersection of national, transnational and global processes, the narrative requires analysis that extends beyond the conventional framework of diaspora‐homeland relations. The Greek branding enters a broader politics in which countries deploy their national cultures to position themselves competitively within global capitalism. From this angle, the article identifies an emergent diaspora political form ‐ a partnership between private and civic organizations ‐ which asserts authority to represent Greek identity globally for the purpose of economic, social and cultural gains. It concludes with a reflection about the social and political implications of this branding, as well as the role of scholars who write about this phenomenon, and more broadly about Greek national mythologies.
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Sideri, Eleni. "Looking for the 'Language' of Recognition among Greek Communities of Georgia." Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 21, no. 1 (2012): 41–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ajec.2012.210104.
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The Caucasus was a zone of encounters for centuries, generating images of regional cosmopolitanism in the past. This vision creates expectations for the present, when it is included in the wider discussion about the meanings of cosmopolitanism today, its relation to modern geopolitics, and issues of social and political co-existence and recognition. This essay focuses on two different photographs that belong to different Greek families in Georgia. These photographs represent two different historical experiences of migration and pinpoint different understandings of cosmopolitanism. However, they both seem to stem from specific discourses about diasporas and their cosmopolitan character. The role of language in the construction of these discourses is fundamental. The essay compares photographic representations of the 'Greek Diaspora' in order to trace the perceptions of cosmopolitanism they generate, the cultural capital they carry, and its outcome in relation to Greek diaspora politics.
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Pelliccia, Andrea. "The Internet in a diasporic and transnational context: A case study of a Greek community in Italy." Journal of Greek Media & Culture 5, no. 1 (2019): 21–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jgmc.5.1.21_1.
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Through field research on Greek second-generation migrants in Italy ‐ a hitherto unexplored and under-represented population ‐ this article examines their use of the Internet in a diasporic and transnational context. More specifically, it explores the ways in which the Greek second generation uses the Internet in order to maintain ties with Greece and seeks to understand the role that the Internet performs in the context of diaspora. Moreover, the diasporic media content on the Internet and the interconnection between online and offline worlds will be analysed in order to assess the impact of the Internet on diasporic networks and interpersonal relationships, especially with reference to critical events such as the Greek debt crisis. The research findings show that the maintenance of ties with the motherland is deeply affected by a mass-mediated imaginary that frequently transcends national space. The ease and frequency with which the Internet crosses borders produce undeniably new ways of imagining the place of origin and create alternatives to the nation state, in terms of emotional belonging and identifying transnationally with other diaspora members.
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Jusdanis, Gregory. "Greek Americans and the Diaspora." Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 1, no. 2 (1991): 209–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/diaspora.1.2.209.
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Chatztheodoridis, Eleftherios, and Saken Toktamysov. "The Role of Greek Merchants in Russian Foreign Trade in the XVIII Century." Journal of Economic History and History of Economics 23, no. 4 (2022): 638–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.17150/2308-2488.2022.23(4).638-662.
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The article is devoted to trading activities of Greek merchants in the Russian Empire in the XVIII century. The authors aim to determine the geography of supply chains and the product range, to give specific examples of foreign trade transactions of Greek merchants and to determine their profitability. The authors show the numerous risks and dangers that accompanied the trading activities of Greek merchants during the period in question, including fraud, robbery and armed attacks on caravans. Notably, the confessional affiliation of Greek entrepreneurs and their status as an ethnic "minority" may have had an ambivalent effect on their commercial activities. On the territory of the Ottoman Empire, this brought additional risks to their commercial activity. In the Russian Empire, by contrast, such factors could lead to economic and financial support of the Greek diaspora by the government. The Russian government also acted as arbitrator in resolving property disputes between Greek businessmen. The commercial and communicative skills of the Greek merchants enabled them to act as effective intermediaries in the Russian Empire's trade with countries of the East and contributed to creation of the Greek diaspora's positive image in Russian society. The activities of individual representatives of the Greek diaspora led to the introduction of technological innovations in their production processes.
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Sagan, Galyna. "History of Formation and Current Trends in Ukrainians’ Religious Life in Croatia." Kyiv Historical Studies 14, no. 1 (2022): 56–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.28925/2524-0757.2022.17.
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The article examines the religious life of Ukrainians in Croatia, which in 2021 celebrated the 120th anniversary of its settlement in Croatia. The analysis was based on the example of the Greek Catholic Church, as almost all immigrants came from the Greek Catholic regions of Ukraine and, having gone abroad, in most cases remained faithful to this denomination. The conditions for the creation of the first religious communities are considered. Attention is also paid to the main historical factors that at one time or another influenced the religious life of Ukrainians in Croatia. The role of the Church in the life of the diaspora at the present stage is also highlighted. The aim of the article is to study the history of formation, role and content of the religious life of Ukrainians in Croatia throughout the history of the diaspora in this country, highlighting the transformational processes of religious life of diasporas. The study allows us to draw the following conclusions. First of all, it should be noted that more than half of the Ukrainian diaspora in Croatia remained faithful to the Greek Catholic Church. Military events in the first half of the 90s of the twentieth century caused significant damage to Ukrainian Greek Catholic parishes in Croatia. Many temples were destroyed, some temples were severely damaged. Immediately after the cessation of hostilities, people returned to the inhabited areas and rebuilt churches along with their own homes. In Croatia, believers have received some financial support from the Ministry of Reconstruction and Development. Today, according to the last census, which was conducted in 2011, the religious affiliation of Ukrainians in Croatia is distributed as follows: 71.3% – Greek Catholics, 18.2 % – orthodox, 0.3 % – Protestants, 10.2 % – atheists, undecided, etc. For Ukrainians, the Greek Catholic faith has a unique national orientation. Religious rites are closely intertwined with national traditions, and therefore the Church for Ukrainians in Croatia continues to be the centre of not only religious but also national life of the diaspora.
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Korma, Lena. "The historiography of the Greek Diaspora and migration in the twentieth century." Historein 16, no. 1-2 (2017): 47. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/historein.8778.
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The aim of this paper is to provide a critical overview of the literature on the Greek diaspora and migration during the twentieth century. In others words, this study attempts to offer a historiographical approach, focusing mainly on Greek-language literature and, in particular, on landmark works in Greek migration studies. Anyone attempting to write about the history of Greek migration is faced with a daunting task, considering that a series of individual concepts must be clarified and positioned in space and time. Migration in modern Greek history is not a phenomenon exclusive to the twentieth century; the permanent presence of Greeks in central Europe from the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries incited the interest of a significant number of Greek historiographers in the twentieth century. In this context, for instance, the use during the twentieth century in the Greek-language literature of terms such as apodimos, apoikia, paroikia or repatriation reflects ruptures and continuities and illuminates the political changes in Greek society and the broader ideological shift in socials sciences. At the same time, the early post-junta period marked not only a systematic shift towards the study of the Greek diaspora and migration, but also a differentiation in its approach by entering into continuous dialogue with other disciplines. However, because diaspora and migration studies is now an interdisciplinary field, an overall analysis of it lies beyond the scope of this work.
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Jusdanis, Gregory. "Greek Americans and the Diaspora." Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 1, no. 2 (1991): 209–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/dsp.1991.0009.
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Krawczuk, Marcin. "Dīmokratīs (Dημοκράτης) – organ prasowy greckich uchodźców w Polskiej Rzeczypospolitej Ludowej". Zeszyty Prasoznawcze 64, № 1 (245) (2021): 95–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/22996362pz.21.007.13035.
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W artykule przedstawino podstawowe informacje na temat ukazującej się w latach 1952––1983 gazety Dīmokratīs (Dημοκράτης) wydawanej w Polskiej Rzeczypospolitej Ludowej przez grecką oraz macedońską społeczność i pełniącej funkcję jej organu prasowego. Obok prezentacji podstawowych faktów starano się także odpowiedzieć na pytania o rolę tej gazety dla jej odbiorców. W tym celu dokonano analizy treści zasobów gazety przechowywanych w Bibliotece Uniwersyteckiej w Warszawie, które należą do najkompletniejszych w kraju. Jako uzupełnienie informacji pozyskanych bezpośrednio z analizy czasopisma wykorzystano także publikacje na temat diaspory grecko-macedońskiej w PRL oraz bibliografie prasy powojennej. W świetle przeprowadzonych badań Dīmokratīs jawi się nie tylko jako organ informacyjny, ale też istotny element podtrzymywania tożsamości diaspory grecko-macedońskiej, zaś zachodzące przez lata przemiany jego treści odzwierciedlają jej zmieniającą się sytuację. Podkreślić należy, że Dīmokratīs był niemal niewykorzystywany w dotychczasowych, stosunkowo licznych i różnorodnych, publikacjach na temat diaspory grecko-macedońskiej w Polsce, tymczasem artykuł ukazuje wszechstronne możliwości wykorzystania tej gazety w badaniach nad tą tematyką. Dīmokratīs (Dημοκράτης) – the Press Organ of Greek Refugees in the Polish People’s Republic The aim of the article is to present basic information about the newspaper Dīmokratīs, (Dημοκράτης) which was published in the years 1952–1983 in Poland (in the Polish People’s Republic) by the Greek and Macedonian community as their press organ. The article focuses on the role of this newspaper for its readers. It presents the results of the content analysis of the volumes of the newspaper preserved in the University of Warsaw Library, the collection of which is among the most complete in the country. The information taken directly from the newspaper were supplemeneted with data taken from the publications about the Greek-Macedonian diaspora in Poland and from bibliographies of the Polish post-war press. In the light of the conducted research it is clear that Dīmokratīs was very important for integrating the Greek-Macedonian diaspora and reflected its historical development. It is worth mentioning that so far Dīmokratīs has hardly been used in the books and publications on the Greek-Macedonian diaspora in Poland, whereas this article shows the various possibilities of conducting further research based on this unique material.
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Sadykova, Liana R. "The history of the Greeks appearance in the Republic of Bashkortostan / История появления греков в Республике Башкортостан". Proceedings of the UFRC RAS Series History Philology Culture 1, № 2 (2024): 213–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.31833/sifk/2024.1.2.024.
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Migration processes are becoming particularly important and relevant in the modern world. Due to the greater mobility of the population, modern society is characterized by constant migration flows. In turn, the increase in the number of migrants causes interethnic tension in the host country, which is regulated by regulatory and forceful methods and integration strategies. The study of the diaspora is connected with the need to study new socio-cultural processes associated with increased communication between different ethnic groups. Today, the number and role of diasporas in the economic, socio-cultural and political life of society is increasing. Because it is the diaspora that plays an important role in uniting and consolidating the ethnic group, preserving ethnic identity. The Diaspora is a complex education and the modern world only reinforces the tendency of social dynamics to complicate. It is difficult for researchers to talk about any general laws of diasporic formation. Thus, it is necessary to study the diversity and uniqueness of specific diasporas. This scientific article examines the history of the appearance of the Greeks in the Republic of Bashkortostan. The author of the study draws our attention to the fact that the process of migration of Greeks to Bashkortostan was difficult and lengthy. The Greeks were forced to leave the Crimea because of Stalin’s repressions. At the same time, the author is also aware of the earlier appearance of the Greeks in Russia and on the territory of the republic, about the interaction of South Ural tribes with ancient centers. Of course, the article presents the dynamics of the number of Greeks in the Republic of Bashkortostan according to the All-Union (All-Russian) censuses. The scientific study provides information about the emergence and formation of Greeks into a national cultural society in Bashkortostan and tells about its functioning in this territory. The author notes that the first Greek society had a name – “Taurida”, and later it was revived into a regional public organization, the Society of Greeks “Xymeroma” of the Republic of Bashkortostan. The name of the society “Xymeroma” is translated from Greek into Russian as “Dawn”. If in the Greek society “Tavrida” the majority of its members were natives of the Crimea, only 10% were natives of Western Georgia. The composition of the Greek society “Xymeroma” with the name of the society is changing, now immigrants from Western Georgia predominate and the revived society is somewhat superior in quantity to the former, but there are noticeably fewer collective events. The conclusion says that the Greeks in the Republic of Bashkortostan manage to preserve their ethnicity. Аннотация. Данная статья рассматривает историю появления греков в Республике Башкортостан. Автор исследования обращает внимание на то, что процесс их миграции был сложным и длительным. Греки были вынуждены покинуть Крым из-за сталинских репрессий. В статье также представлены сведения об их более раннем появлении в России и на территории республики, о взаимодействии южноуральских племен с античными центрами. Автор касается динамики численности греков по всесоюзным (всероссийским) переписям населения. В научном исследовании дана информация о национально-культурных обществах греков в Республике Башкортостан. Автор отмечает, что первое общество греков именовалось «Таврида», позже новая региональная общественная организация получила название «Ксимерома» («Рассвет»). Если в греческом обществе «Таврида» большинство его членов были крымчанами (и только 10 % уроженцами Грузии), то в более многочисленном обществе «Ксимерома» уже преобладают выходцы из Западной Грузии. В последние годы проводимых обществом коллективных мероприятий, к сожалению, становится заметно меньше, что связано с рядом объективных факторов. В заключении говорится о том, что грекам в Республике Башкортостан удается сохранить свою этничность.
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CICANCI, OLGA. "ΤΟ ΣΤΑΔΙΟ ΤΗΣ ΕΡΕΥΝΑΣ ΣΧΕΤΙΚΑ ΜΕ ΤΗΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΕΜΠΟΡΙΚΗ ΔΙΑΣΠΟΡΑ ΣΤΟΝ ΡΟΥΜΑΝΙΚΟ ΧΩΡΟ (ΤΟΝ 17ο - 18ο ΑΙΩΝΑ)". Eoa kai Esperia 7 (1 січня 2007): 409. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/eoaesperia.99.
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<p>This paper offers an overview of the state of research on the Greek tradediaspora in Romania. The preoccupation of the Romanian historiographywith the Greek trade diaspora in Romania dates back to early 40's. The commercialactivity and the institutional organization of the Greek tradecompanies of Sibiu and Braçov was the topic which initially attracted theattention of Romanian historians. Since the 80's multiplied the number ofpublications and research projects concerning the history of Greek merchanthouses in the Transylvanian towns, while the economic role of Greeks hasbeen accentuated by scholars of the Romanian economic history of the 18thcentury. Recently, the research interest has been expanded to the study of theGreek commercial activity in the Romanian port-cities during the 19thcentury.</p><p>The paper includes information about archival data, unpublisheddocuments and doctoral theses, as well as a list of the more recentpublications concerning the history of the Greek trade diaspora in Romania.</p>
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Konstan, David. "Defining Ancient Greek Ethnicity." Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 6, no. 1 (1997): 97–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/diaspora.6.1.97.
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As the first full-length modem study of ethnicity in the culture that gave us the word, Jonathan Hall’s book is an event in classical scholarship. Hall has brought to the task a profound knowledge of the ancient Greek world: he is equally conversant with the literary and archaeological sources, which is rare among classical historians, and thoroughly informed, as well, about the technical specialty of Greek linguistics, which is indispensable to the analysis of the role of language in the construction of ethnic identity. Hall is also up-to-date on modem approaches to ethnicity, and, in a fine introductory chapter, he reviews attitudes toward Greek ethnicity within Classics over the past couple of centuries—since the founding, that is, of the modern discipline of classical philology. Hall writes clearly, and has done what he can to make the argument accessible to non-specialists: he translates all Greek words and passages, provides thumbnail summaries of historical or geographical information, and summarizes the current state of the question in respect to the major topics he addresses. Nevertheless, the detailed investigation of obscure and complex Greek genealogies, involving multiple variants and unfamiliar names, or of the differences among the several dialects of ancient Greek and how they may have evolved, will be hard going for the reader who is not moderately conversant with the materials, or at least interested enough to peruse the book with dictionary and encyclopedia in hand. Accordingly, in this review I shall recapitulate the central themes of Hall’s book (without, of course, reproducing the meticulous documentation and careful argumentation that make the book so valuable) while simultaneously calling attention to those aspects of Hall's approach that seem to me to be problematic, or at all events debatable.
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Harlaftis, Gelina. "From Diaspora Traders to Shipping Tycoons: The Vagliano Bros." Business History Review 81, no. 2 (2007): 237–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007680500003354.
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This study traces the origins of the twentieth-century Greek shipping tycoons and their global business to the nineteenth-century Greek diaspora traders. It examines the distinct characteristics of a diaspora firm, which can be treated partially as a multinational or “free standing firm” with distinctive features. Based in the main European financial centers, diaspora traders were international operators who developed ethnic-religious networks with their own unofficial international market, enabling them to operate independently of the countries or states in which they were established. The Vagliano house is a prime example of a diaspora trading house that transformed itself into a major shipping and ship-management firm, paving the way for the global success of twentieth-century Greek-owned shipping. The Vagliano network integrated the Greek shipping sector into the international shipping production system by creating an institutional framework based on trust that minimized transaction costs and entrepreneurial risk and provided information flow.
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Avgoulas, Maria-Irini, and Rebecca Fanany. "Migration, Identity and Wellbeing in Melbourne Australia - The Idea of being Greek in Diaspora." ATHENS JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES 8, no. 3 (2021): 211–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.30958/ajss.8-3-4.
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Both maintenance and transmission of Greek cultural identity are central to people of Greek descent living in diaspora, regardless of whether the individuals involved are immigrants or the descendants of immigrants. The ‘idea of being Greek’ often represents a positive resource for personal and group identity, even though what constitutes being Greek may be different depending on the cultural lens through which it is viewed in the experience of each generation. Nonetheless, core domains associated with the concept of being Greek include the Greek language, the Greek Orthodox religion and various daily cultural practices. This paper will discuss findings across a number of recent studies undertaken in Melbourne, Australia taking an emic and etic perspective that all utilize the emergent methodology of narrative ethnography to explore migration, identity and wellbeing in the Greek community as well as the idea of being Greek in diaspora. The results suggest that there are emotional benefits associated with cultural identity and overall positive wellbeing and that, for those living in diaspora, whether migration was planned or not, a cultural community, cultural activities and membership in a distinct group are positive resources in fostering social connectedness. From a social perspective on health, this extends beyond the physiological/clinical elements of health and wellbeing and emphasizes the various social and intangible benefits of positive outlook and the very significant role that culture, and cultural practices play in the group social context by contributing to the perception of health and wellbeing in the Greek diaspora community across generations. Keywords: Culture, identity, wellbeing, Greek identity, migration
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Khan, Afsheen, and Dr Mona Dandwate. "Relation Between Indian Diaspora and Bollywood Cinema in The Context of Globalization." International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research Configuration 2, no. 2 (2022): 41–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.52984/ijomrc2207.
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Diaspora are those human groups who have history and experiences of migration and the attendant anxiety of displacement, homelessness and a wish to return to homeland.The term diaspora is derived from the Greek composite verb dia(through) and Speirein( infinitive) literally meaning ‘to scatter’ or ‘ to spread’ or ‘ to disperse’. Before exploring the inter relationship between Cinema and Indian diaspora, it should be known that how effectively it works on the life of diasporic people. Actually Cinema or Bollywood is unique confluence of literature and art. Bollywood as a globally successful phenomenon can be attributed to the alignment of the film industry towards the Indian diaspora and a wider audience outside India. As we know literature always is the cumulative image of the temper of people. Those who bestow with creative imagination talent will be able to depict the social realities in literature .On the other hand cinema is a very effective medium of communication and due to advanced technologies it's accessibility to the audience all over the world from the place of production itself has increased tremendously. Films on diaspora contain facts about everyday life of people in diaspora and hence give knowledge about them.
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Dikyurt, Ahmet Emre. "Going Back to Pre-conflict Identities." Diaspora Studies 18, no. 1 (2024): 20–33. https://doi.org/10.1163/09763457-bja10125.
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Abstract This study examines the creation of the Cypriot diaspora in the United Kingdom and how British Cypriots have embraced a pre-conflict Cypriot identity. Thousands of Turkish and Greek Cypriots were displaced as a result of ethnic conflicts in Cyprus during the 1960s as well as in 1974. This study, modelled as an interdisciplinary investigation, examines how scholars have viewed the Cypriot diaspora over time and consequently have created a history of this diasporic population’s shift in identity through memory preservation, collective community-building and ideas of home and belonging. Analysing previous research on the Cypriot diaspora and the data retrieved from semi-structured interviews and participant observation, this study argues that the Cypriot diaspora in the UK has created a new home and sense of belonging similar to that during the pre-British protectorate period of Cyprus, and that this displaced population’s view of ‘Cypriot-ness’ has affected their ideas of home and belonging.
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Pshenychnyi, Taras. "THE TOPIC OF THE UKRAINIAN GREEK CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE STUDY OF THE UKRAINIAN DIASPORA IN CANADA IN 1900–1991." American History & Politics: Scientific edition, no. 18 (2024): 125–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2521-1706.2024.18.10.
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The Ukrainian diaspora in Canada is one of the largest communities of Ukrainians outside of Ukraine. Only in the last hundred years has it managed to become a powerful voice for Ukrainians outside their homeland. Its voice was especially important during the interwar period and the Soviet era. Thanks to Ukrainian intellectuals, the Western world was exposed to the Ukrainian world, the resilience of the Ukrainian people, and the markers of its national identity, including the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. With the development of Ukrainian studies in Canada, the UGCC was increasingly well-represented in the scientific and information space. Between 1940 and 1980, the Ukrainian community in Canada became the voice of the repressed Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, and was involved in shaping the narrative of the Church as a «martyr». The purpose of the article is to synthesize the key historiographical basis for the history of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada in 1900–1991. The scientific novelty of the article lies in the fact that only those publications by Ukrainian scholars in Canada in which the subject of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church was the key one were singled out from the significant historiographical layer of scientific literature. In addition, through the separation of publications, it was possible to determine the main stages of the development of the historiography of the UGCC among the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada. The methodological basis of the study is based on the methods of critical analysis and synthesis of sources, as well as the analytical method. Conclusions. The article presents a synthesized analysis of the publications of Ukrainian diasporans in Canada on the history of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church from the beginning of the twentieth century to 1989. At the same time, it is noted that the development of Ukrainian historical studies in Canada laid a solid foundation for the formation of a bibliography of Ukrainian publications and publications on Ukrainian historical topics. The Ukrainian diaspora in Canada has managed to accumulate resources for the development of historical studies. Publications initiated by Ukrainian communities, publishing houses, and organizations should be viewed as an attempt to capture memory, events, processes, and phenomena in the history of the UGCC. It was in the post-Soviet era that they became the foundation for the study of the development of historical thought in the Ukrainian diaspora.
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Filippidou, Eleni. "Greek Diaspora of America and Greek Traditional Dance: A Case Study." European Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 3, no. 2 (2023): 31–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.24018/ejsocial.2023.3.2.413.
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The aim of this paper is to study the reasons for the participation of the 3rd and 4th generation emigrants of the state of Chicago, in Greek traditional dance classes, taking as an example the cultural association “Orpheus Hellenic Folklore Society”. The collection of ethnographic data was based on the ethnographic method, under the terms of an online ethnography or otherwise Netnography. Oral history was also used as a method, through which everyday memory is projected as a quest of social history. Finally, for the presentation and analysis of the data, Geertz's model of "thick description" was adopted. An important parameter in the analysis and interpretation of the data is the concept of "reflection", which also was used in this paper. From the data analysis was found that, the Greek traditional dance has a particularly important role in multicultural nations such as America. More specifically, the findings of this study indicate that cultural heritage and cultural identity remain important, even in immigrant generations who have been born and raised in America and who have moved significantly away from the behavior and action patterns of Greeks. In particular, all the survey informants stated that their participation in Greek traditional dance classes and events has to do with preserving their Greek cultural heritage. In conclusion, it can be said that the Greek traditional dance in the American state of Chicago is experienced as a manifestation of the cultural expression of the Greek heritage, but also a way of understanding ‘Greekness’ in the wider American context.
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Dimitris, Kataiftsis, and Grigorakis Anastasios. "From open markets to Russian products stores to "big business": Economics and ethics in Pontic Greek communities of Thessaloniki after the Soviet experience." Seesox Working Papers Series 5, March 2019 (2019): 1–19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15255269.
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This paper examines the development of economic practices within diasporic networks of Greeks from the former Soviet Union (FSU). It focuses on the period after 1990 when more than 150,000 ethnic Greeks from the FSU migrated to Greece, and mainly on migrants that settled in Thessaloniki and its suburbs. It argues that diasporic networks played a crucial role not only in survival strategies of the newcomers via solidarity but also in the development of both small and large-scale economic activities. Local labour markets, entrepreneurship and capital accumulation of Greeks from the FSU are socially embedded and conditioned by the structure of diasporic networks and by the interaction of the latter with economic agents in the country of origin. Based mainly on life-story narratives, this paper traces the development of economic networks since the arrival of the first migrants in early 90s to the gradual emergence of transnational economic activities and big businesses owned by some prominent Greek-Russian businessmen. Though not linear, these activities seem to rely on mutations of both transnational economic and diasporic networks, and have been legitimated by community work ethics.
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Métaxidès, Nicolas, and Nikolina Myofa. "A Comparative Overview of African Studies in Turkey and Greece." Afrika Tanulmányok / Hungarian Journal of African Studies 19, no. 1 (2025): 5–21. https://doi.org/10.15170/at.2025.19.1.1.
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For many years, African issues had a low priority in both political and academic circles in Greece and Turkey. However, as far as Turkey is concerned, scientific interest in African issues has gone hand in hand with growing political interest in the continent, with African studies focusing primarily on Turkish-African relations. Regarding the Greek reality, while the Greeks have had an active diaspora in countries of Sub-Saharan Africa for many decades, the state has never formulated any coordinated political proposal to strengthen the country’s relationship with the continent. This lack of central policy leaves the Greek immigrants there absolutely alone to make their mark in their host societies. Respectively, the Greek academic community only in recent years has been dealing with Africa, even though to a limited extent, focusing mainly on issues concerning the Greek diaspora there. Given that in recent decades Greece has become a host country for immigrants and among them, immigrants or even refugees from Sub-Saharan Africa, so, due to this fact the scientific interest in Africa has increased. Therefore, the main aim of this paper is to compare the two case studies regarding the status quo of African Studies across them.
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King, Russell, Anastasia Christou, Ivor Goodson, and Janine Teerling. "Tales of Satisfaction and Disillusionment: Second-Generation “Return” Migration to Greece and Cyprus." Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 17, no. 3 (2014): 262–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/diaspora.17.3.262.
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We examine the comparative “return” experiences of second-generation Greek-Americans and British-born Greek Cypriots who have relocated to their respective parental homelands of Greece and Cyprus. Sixty individuals, born in the United States or the United Kingdom yet now living in Greece or Cyprus, were interviewed and detailed life narratives recorded. We find both similarities and differences between the two groups. While the broad narrative themes “explaining” their returns are similar a search for a “place to belong” in the ancestral homeland linked to what is, or was, perceived to be a more relaxed and genuine way of life—the post-return outcomes vary. In Greece there is disappointment, even profound disillusionment, whereas in Cyprus the return is generally viewed with satisfaction. For Greek-Americans, negative experiences include difficulty in accessing employment, frustration with bureaucracy and a culture of corruption, struggles with the chaos and stress of life in Athens, and pessimism about the future for their children in Greece. As a result, some Greek-Americans contemplate a second return, back to the United States. For the returnee British Cypriots, these problems are far less evident; they generally rationalize their relocation to Cyprus as the “right decision,” both for themselves and for their children. Greek-Americans tend to withdraw into a social circle of their own kind, whereas British-born returnee Cypriots adopt a more cosmopolitan or “third-space” cultural identity related, arguably, to the small scale and intimate spaces of social exchange in an island setting, and to the colonial and postcolonial history of Cyprus and its diaspora.
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Kitroeff, Alexander. "The Greek diaspora in the twentieth century." Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 25, no. 1 (2001): 247–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/byz.2001.25.1.247.
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Rakopoulos, Theodoros. "The Poetics of Diaspora: Greek US Voices." Journal of Modern Greek Studies 34, no. 1 (2016): 161–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mgs.2016.0000.
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Mikołajczyk, Marcin. "Grecka diaspora w Poznaniu w XVIII i XIX w." Przegląd Archiwalno-Historyczny 1 (2014): 89–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/2391-890xpah.14.007.14868.
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Poznań, jedno z największych miast Rzeczypospolitej, licznie zamieszkiwali przybysze z innych krajów. Wśród nich byli Grecy. Głównymi przyczynami emigracji greckiej były przesłanki natury ekonomicznej, politycznej oraz geopolitycznej. Niezwykle interesującym problemem pozostaje pochodzenie etniczne emigrantów. Pierwsze wzmianki o Grekach w mieście pochodzą z XVI w. Znacznie liczniej napłynęli Grecy do miasta w drugiej poł. XVIII w. Głównym zajęciem emigrantów był intratny handel winem oraz towarami wschodnimi. Grecy sprowadzali wino najczęściej z ośrodków węgierskich. Od chwili przybycia do Poznania Grecy postrzegani byli przez rodzime kupiectwo jako czynnik niepożądany. Księgi grodzkie Poznania oraz Konfraterni Kupieckiej przepełnione są skargami na przybyszów z południa. Dopiero ustawy działającej w Poznaniu Komisji Dobrego Porządku z 1780 r. uregulowały warunki pobytu Greków w mieście. Poznańska gmina założona została ok. 1750 r. Poznańscy grecy byli chrześcijanami wyznania prawosławnego. Nabożeństwa odprawiano w cerkwiach domowych, gmina posiadała cmentarz. Kolejnymi kapelanami gminy byli: Atanazy Korda, Konstantyn Chartofilax Okuta, Atanazy Sawicz oraz Zupanos. Poznańska gmina grecka została rozwiązana w 1909 r. Najsłynniejszym przedstawicielem poznańskich Greków był Jan Konstanty Żupański, księgarz i wydawca. Greek diaspora in Poznan in the 18th and 19th century Poznań, one of the largest Polish cities, was frequently inhabited by citizens of other countries. One such nation were Greeks, who came to Poland for economic, political and geopolitical reasons. Ethnic origins of emigrants remains an interesting problem. The first information on Greeks in Poznań can be traced back to the 16th century. In the second half of the 17th century, the number of Greeks coming to the city increased. Emigrants occupied themselves mainly with (profitable) wine and Eastern goods trade. Greeks imported wine mostly from Hungary. From the moment they came, Greeks were considered unwelcome by local tradesmen. Municipal books and the books of the Merchants’ Guild are full of complaints on the incomers from the South. It was not until 1789, when the laws of the Commission of Good Order operating in Poznań, that the conditions of Greeks staying in Poznań had been regulated. The Poznań Greek community was established around 1750. Poznań Greeks were of the Christian Orthodox denomination. Services were held at home churches, the community also had its cemetery. The following people were the chaplains: Atanazy Korda, Konstantyn Chartofilax Okuta, Atanazy Sawicz and Zupanos. The Poznań Greek community was dissolved in 1909. The most well-known representative of the Poznań Greeks is Jan Konstanty Żupański, a bookseller and publisher.
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Fokas, Nikos. "Greeks in Hungary : from the Orthodox Greek merchants to the refugees of the Greek Civil War." Neograeca Bohemica, [1] (2023): [15]—39. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/ngb2023-23-2.
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The current face of the Greek community in Hungary was undoubtedly shaped by the political refugees who arrived in Hungary due to the Greek Civil War and their descendants. However, this Greek community recognises the legacy of the Greek merchant diaspora of the 18th and 19th centuries, which played a decisive role in the modernisation of Hungary as its own heritage. Therefore, I will briefly describe what this heritage consists of and how contemporary Greeks relate to it. I will then review the history of the resettlement of Greek political refugees in Hungary, with a particular focus on Greek children who arrived in Hungary without parental care. I will present their forced departure from Greece, their arrival in Hungary, their settlement, and their integration, partly based on archival materials and mainly on life history interviews.
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PASITSKA, Oksana. "METROPOLITAN A. SHEPTYTSKYI, F.M. T. VOINAROVSKYI AND THE UKRAINIAN DIASPORA IN VIENNA: COOPERATION IN THE INTERESTS OF THE CHURCH AND THE PEOPLE." Contemporary era 10 (2022): 81–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.33402/nd.2022-10-81-96.
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Based on archival materials from Vienna and Lviv, periodicals, and achievements of historiography, the article analyzes the relations and cooperation of Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytskyi, Father-Mitrat Tyt Voinarovskyi with the Ukrainian diaspora in Vienna. To start with, the Greek-Catholic bishops' activities in Vienna in behalf of the Church and the people, are investigated. The role of Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytskyi and Father-Mitrat Tyt Voinarovskyi in representing and defending the interests of Ukrainians in the Viennese Parliament is shown, in particular, in reforming the electoral, agrarian, and educational system. Furthermore, much attention is focused on the relations of the Greek Catholic bishops with representatives of the Ukrainian diaspora in Vienna, including a large number of politicians, artists, workers, and students. As stated, the Greek-Catholic bishops conducted a representative and mediating-communicative function between representatives of the Ukrainian diaspora in Vienna and Ukrainians in ethnic Ukrainian lands. Also, the study analyzes the relationship among the Greek-Catholic bishops and the Church of St. Barbara in Vienna parish priest Myron Hornykevych. Thanks to their close cooperation, it was possible to keep safe the ZUNR archive and private archival collections of public figures, unite Ukrainian emigrants in educational and youth organizations, provide young people with access to theological studies, and implement several charitable events in ethnic Ukrainian lands and abroad. Finally, specific examples show the public moods and everyday life, issues, and challenges of Ukrainian emigrants in Vienna, which was frequently the subject of correspondence of A. Sheptytskyi, T. Voinarovskyi, K. Sheptytskyi, M. Hornykevych, S. Dnistrianskyi, K. Blyzniuk,V. Singalevych, K. Avdykovych, to name a few. Keywords Greek Catholic Church, Metropolitan Sheptytskyi, Father Mitrat Tyt Voinarovskyi, Vienna, Ukrainian diaspora, emigration.
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Nissen, James. "Rebetiko in diaspora: The London Rebetiko scene." Journal of Greek Media & Culture 8, no. 1 (2022): 19–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jgmc_00045_1.
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One of the most active rebetiko scenes outside Greece is in London. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork at Rebetiko Carnival, engagement with the scene between 2014 and 2020, and personal interviews with key musicians, this article examines the meanings and the unique features of Rebetiko in London. It shows the roles of music in forming a diasporic musical community and maintaining connections with Greece, while also forging a cosmopolitan music scene characterized by cross-cultural creativity, gender consciousness and education and outreach. It thus demonstrates that Rebetiko is both recontextualized and transformed in London, nurtured by the city’s multiculturalism. This study suggests that, by considering this scene as part of an international network, Rebetiko could be conceptualized as not only in diaspora but as a diaspora in itself, as a transnational thread that links widely dispersed and diverse musicians and enables them to create new cultural homes. This research thus contributes towards a growing literature on Rebetiko in the Greek diaspora and reflects on wider issues relating to music in contexts of migration.
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Nikitina, Inna, and Ksenia Klimova. "The traditional culture and the language of the “Russian Greeks” in Sochi: A review of an ethnolinguistic expedition." Slavic Almanac 2022, no. 3-4 (2022): 249–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.31168/2073-5731.2022.3-4.2.06.
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The traditional culture and the language of the Greek population of Sochi in July 2022 for the first time became the subject of an ethnolinguistic study by Russian researchers. The Greek population (natives of the region of Pontus, located in modern Turkey) initially appeared in these territories in the second half of the 19th century. During the Stalin era, the number of Greeks decreased significantly, however, the language (Pontic dialect of the Greek language) and elements of traditional culture in places where Greeks were densely populated are preserved to this day. In the folk calendar, family rituals, folk mythology of the modern Greek population, there are not only common Greek elements that unite the Pontic Greeks of the diaspora with the wide “Greek world”, but also characteristic features that allow us to draw a preliminary conclusion about the preservation of archaic elements of culture (the rite of making rain “koshkotera”, etc.). Many elements of traditional culture were influenced by neighboring Slavic (Russian) and other Caucasian (Armenian, Georgian) traditions.
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Ruprecht, Louis A. "On Being Jewish or Greek in the Modern Moment." Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 3, no. 2 (1994): 199–220. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/diaspora.3.2.199.
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Malik Ashmoon, Аbou Zahr Diaz, and Аbou Zahr Diaz Montaser Hamed. "PRACTICES OF SOLIDARITY OF THE LEBANESE DIASPORA IN THE WORLD DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC." Scientific Review. Series 1. Economics and Law, no. 4-5 (2021): 35–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.26653/2076-4650-2021-4-5-03.
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The article examines the Lebanese diaspora, its relations with the Lebanese society and the situation in the world. The data is analyzed and the location of Lebanese diasporas in different parts of the world is considered. Lebanese immigrant communities around the world make up the largest groups of Arab immigrants. As a diaspora, Lebanese communities have historical roots in almost every corner of the world. A more significant fact of the migration of Lebanese society is considered to be the beginning of the second half of the 19th century, the Lebanese immigrated to America, Africa and Northern Europe. Many factors have contributed to the spread of Lebanese society around the world. Lebanon has a free market economy and a strong commercial tradition of non-interference. The government does not restrict foreign investment, but the investment climate suffers from bureaucracy, corruption, arbitrary licensing decisions, complex customs procedures, high taxes, tariffs and fees, archaic legislation, and inadequate protection of intellectual property rights [4. Р. 143]. The idea of a diaspora-a dispersed ethnic group spanning national borders-has been revived by the intensity of global processes over the past few decades towards understanding the immigrant experience. In its Greek origin, the term diaspora means the scattering of seeds and thus means an association with migration and colonization, implying acculturation and assimilation while preserving an ingrained tradition. Also, the diaspora captures much of our analytical and popular imagination and requires explanatory power in describing the presence and conditions of the immigrant population. Understanding their position as a product of global economic, political and cultural dynamics, Lebanese immigrants demonstrate forms of identification, social ties and ways of cultural expression that take into account the global diaspora consciousness [2. Р. 82]. The diaspora, on the other hand, provides an entry into the study of the global situation and the dynamics of the economy. It should be noted that the Lebanese diaspora is an important group for studying the dynamics of immigration and how immigrants are affected by global economic, political and cultural processes.
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Leontis, Artemis. "Mediterranean Topographies before Balkanization: On Greek Diaspora, Emporion, and Revolution." Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 6, no. 2 (1997): 179–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/diaspora.6.2.179.
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I place my work under the rubric of spatial studies: an investigation of how people inhabit their world. The corner of the world I examine is the northeastern Mediterranean, a highly contested region that has brought into contact numerous peoples: Greek, Persian, and Roman in ancient times; Byzantine, Slavic, Arabic, Venetian, Frankish, Jewish, Armenian, and Ottoman in the late ancient to early modern period; and Greek, Turkish, Slavic, and Albanian in our own times. Literature is my point of entry into that world. Though it is unusual in spatial studies, an area of inquiry dominated by geography, architecture, environmental psychology, political theory, and anthropology, I find the literary approach quite useful. For literature has always occupied itself with topographia or topothesia, the “description” or “situation of place” (Curtius 200). Literature relies on historical and geographical spatiality to orient its readers and send them on its imaginative journey.
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Mavroudi, Elizabeth. "Feeling Greek, speaking Greek? National identity and language negotiation amongst the Greek diaspora in Australia." Geoforum 116 (November 2020): 130–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.08.003.
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Stewart, Charles. "Forget Homi! Creolization, Omogéneia and the Greek Diaspora." Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 15, no. 1 (2006): 61–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/dsp.0.0031.
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Tsolidis, Georgina, and Vikki Pollard. "Home Space: Youth Identification in the Greek Diaspora." Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education 4, no. 3 (2010): 147–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15595692.2010.490728.
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Avgoulas, Maria-Irini, and Rebecca Fanany. "The Symbolic Meaning of Greek Dancing in Diaspora." Athens Journal of Social Sciences 6, no. 2 (2019): 99–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.30958/ajss.6-2-2.
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Molho, Anthony. "The Jewish Community of Salonika: The End of a Long History." Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 1, no. 1 (1991): 100–122. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/diaspora.1.1.100.
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Salonika, Greece’s second-largest city, does not often attract the world’s attention. Neither its scenic setting at the head of a natural bay across which, on clear days, one can discern the outlines of Mount Olympus, nor its numerous and beautiful Byzantine churches, nor even its easy access to attractive seaside resorts seem to offer much incentive to outside visitors. Occasionally, some spectacular event, if only momentarily, focuses the world’s attention on the city. This happened in 1948, during the Greek civil war, with the assassination—why and by whom remain unclear—of the American journalist John Polk. Then, in 1963, another murder once again put the city’s name in the headlines of the international press, when George Lambrakis, a Greek deputy of the Left, was murdered by a gang of rightwing thugs.
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Minoglou, Ioanna Pepelasis. "Women and Family Capitalism in Greece, c.17801940." Business History Review 81, no. 3 (2007): 517–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007680500036709.
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Women have been important contributors to Greek mercantilism since the time of the economic migration that occurred at the end of the eighteenth century, and they were deeply involved in Greek capitalist development. Their role was particularly pronounced due to the predominance of the family in Greek society and business. Diaspora women operated as keepers of the internationally dispersed Greek clan, while their counterparts in mainland Greece perpetuated and strengthened the local family network.
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Esposito, Ariana, and Airton Pollini. "Diaspora, colonie, colonisation : défis et enjeux d’un lexique." Cadernos do LEPAARQ (UFPEL) 15, no. 29 (2018): 101. http://dx.doi.org/10.15210/lepaarq.v15i29.11741.
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Le recours à l’expression « diaspora » dans le cadre de certaines études récemment publiées en France et ailleurs constitue un essai évident d’éviter le terme « colonisation ». Si le mot colonisation n’est pas neutre, en raison de son historiographie récente, le mot diaspora est-il pertinent pour parler des établissements grecs antiques, notamment à l’époque archaïque ? Le problème lexical est bien évidemment un des axes majeurs de la recherche contemporaine et il conditionne en grande mesure l’appréciation que l’on peut se faire des différentes expériences de mobilité des contingents de populations grecques en Méditerranée. C’est pourquoi il nous a semblé opportun de démarrer par ces questions de vocabulaire.The use of the expression “diaspora” in the context of some recently published works in France and elsewhere constitutes an obvious attempt to avoid the term “colonization”. If the word colonization is not a neutral one, due to its recent historiography, is that of “diaspora” suitable to refer to ancient Greek establishments, especially in the archaic period? The lexical problem is obviously one of the major issues of contemporary research and it determines, to a great extent, the appreciation one can have of the different types of mobility of Greek populations in the Mediterranean. That’s why it appeared appropriate to start with those questions of vocabulary.
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Murray, Jill C. "“You Speak Greek Well … (for an Australian)”: Homeland Visits and Diaspora Identity." Diaspora 20, no. 1 (2018): 65–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/diaspora.20.1.005.
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Dr, Rajendra Vithal Waghmare. "Aspects of Diaspora Reflected in the Writings of Jhumpa Lahiri and Rohinton Mistry: An Overview." 'Journal of Research & Development' 14, no. 19 (2022): 97–98. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7431336.
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In the present paper attempts will be made to define the term ‘Diaspora’, etymology of the term Diaspora, a very brief history of the word diaspora and its reflection in the select works of Jhumpa Lahiri and Rohinton Mistry. The word “diaspora” is being used very extensively in many of the fields including journalistic writing, political and academic discourses taking the themes of migration and cultural, emotional and other walks of life of the immigrated people from one country to the other. ‘In the twentieth century, the meaning of the term gradually expanded to cover the involuntary dispersal of other populations, especially Armenians and people of African descent since the 1980s diaspora has proliferated to a remarkable extent, to the point where it is now applied to migrants of almost every kind’(Kevin,1). In the beginning, it would be used in the context of Jew dispersal and exile, but later it very commonly used in other fields. The Greek noun <em>diaspora</em> derives from the verb <em>diaspeirein</em> a compound of “dia”(over or through) and “speirein” (to scatter or sow) The word emerged from the proto-Indo- European root <em>spr</em> , which can be found today in such English words as “spere”, “sperm”, “spread” and “disperse”. In all of its various uses, diaspora has something to do with scattering and dispersal. To the ancient Greeks, diaspora seems to have signified mainly a process of destruction. (2) However, diaspora and the Jewish History have a very close connection. Later, the term diaspora was connected theology. The Jews, according to the Bible disobeyed God’s law, therefore, as a punishment they were exiled and their only hope was ‘repentance’.
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Horbury, William. "Holy land and diaspora in The Book of Wisdom." Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 30, no. 1 (2020): 6–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0951820720939545.
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Wisdom is considered against the background of the incidence of these themes in the Israelite sapiential corpus and usage of “diaspora” and related vocabulary. In writings which, like Wisdom, developed biblical tradition in the Greek and early Roman periods it seems that far-reaching modification of the negative Pentateuchal overtones of diaspora did not exclude them, but scattering could be treated as an experience of all Israel, and old views of Jerusalem as the center of Israelite settlement could displace thoughts of diaspora separation. In Wisdom likewise “diaspora” seems absent from the chapters on Solomon, where Jerusalem is the sacred center of an empire; the treatment of the exodus notes Egyptian sojourn, but emphasis lies not on separation from home but on the one people of God found everywhere.
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Schnapper, Dominique. "From the Nation-State to the Transnational World: On the Meaning and Usefulness of Diaspora as a Concept." Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 8, no. 3 (1999): 225–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/diaspora.8.3.225.
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“Where once were dispersions, there now is diaspora” (Tölölyan, “Rethinking” 3). The recent diffusion of the word currently applied to countless populations is a phenomenon that warrants analysis. A Greek word, it has been used since antiquity to designate the destiny of the Jewish people after the destruction of the Temple and the annexation of Judea by the Romans. In French, it was capitalized: it was the Diaspora. During the modern period, from the Great Discoveries until about 1968, the term was extended to include the dispersion of Greeks and Armenians outside of Greece and Armenia, and then the Chinese. It had come to designate the condition of a geographically dispersed people who had settled in different political organizations but who maintained, in spite of this dispersion, some form of unity and solidarity. Since 1968, the term has seen a genuine inflation—especially in the United States. It has since designated all forms of population dispersion, until then evoked by the terms expelled, expatriate, exile, refugee, immigrant, or minority.
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Sifneos, Evridiki. "“Cosmopolitanism” as a feature of the greek commercial diaspora." History and Anthropology 16, no. 1 (2005): 97–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0275720042000316641.
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