Globalizing Southeastern Europe : Emigrants, America, and the State since the Late Nineteenth Century.
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- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781498519564
- Immigrants--United States--History
- Transnationalism--Social aspects--Balkan Peninsula--History
- Globalization--Social aspects--Balkan Peninsula--History
- Balkan Peninsula--Emigration and immigration--History
- United States--Emigration and immigration--History
- Balkan Peninsula--Emigration and immigration--Political aspects--History
- Balkan Peninsula--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects--History
- Balkan Peninsula--Relations--United States
- United States--Relations--Balkan Peninsula
- 304.8/730496
- JV8295.B78 2016
Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One. Introduction -- Chapter Two. Overseas Emigration from the Balkans until 1914 -- Chapter Three. To Make a Living in America-and at Home -- Chapter Four. The Politics of Emigration -- Chapter Five. Nationalism, the State and the Emigrants in the Interwar Period -- Chapter Six. The Emerging Communist Emigration Regime -- Chapter Seven. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
This book analyzes the causes and long-term social and economic effects of overseas emigration from Southeastern Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The author argues that such emigration has repeatedly attracted the attention of policymakers who exploit it for state development goals.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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