Diaspora Online : : Identity Politics and Romanian Migrants / / Ruxandra Trandafoiu.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Trandafoiu, Ruxandra,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; PART I – DEPARTURES The ‘Great Escape’: Defining Emigration as Social Transition and ‘Natural Selection’ --; Chapter One ‘Land without Horizon’ The Post-communist Transition and Emigration as Political Act --; Chapter Two ‘Taking the Bull by the Horns’ Migrant Pathology and the Role of Diasporic Websites --; PART II – ARRIVALS ‘Bread Tastes Better at Home’: The (II)liberal Paradox of Western Societies --; Chapter Three ‘Waking up among Strangers’ Translation, Adaptation, Participation --; Chapter Four ‘Nobody Wants to Know Me’ Immigration Controls and Diasporic Associative Models --; PART III – POLITICS ‘Diasporans Unite’: Identity Politics and the Romanian Diaspora --; Chapter Five ‘Brothers, We Need to Do Something!’ Online Activism and the Politicization of the Diaspora --; Chapter Six ‘Languishing in Purgatory’ The Politics of Location and Homeland --; Chapter Seven ‘America, Romanian Land’ Diasporic Identity Politics in the United States and Canada --; PART IV – SECOND LIFE ‘Voir, c’est avoir à distance’ --; Chapter Eight. Diaspora Online: Hierarchies and Rules --; Conclusion: The Story Is Still Being Written --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780857459442; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9780857459442
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ruxandra Trandafoiu.

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.