Staying at Home : : Identities, Memories and Social Networks of Kazakhstani Germans / / Rita Sanders.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Sanders, Rita,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Integration and Conflict Studies ; 13
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (270 p.)

Despite economic growth in Kazakhstan, more than 80 per cent of Kazakhstan’s ethnic Germans have emigrated to Germany to date. Disappointing experiences of the migrants, along with other aspects of life in Germany, have been transmitted through transnational networks to ethnic Germans still living in Kazakhstan. Consequently, Germans in Kazakhstan today feel more alienated than ever from their ‘historic homeland’. This book explores the interplay of those memories, social networks and state policies, which play a role in the ‘construction’ of a Kazakhstani German identity.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Maps, Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- Part I: Memories, Histories and Life Stories -- Chapter 1: Memories and Histories -- Chapter 2: The Enmeshment of Identities and Life Stories -- Part II: Nationality, Power and Change -- Chapter 3: Assessing Nationality -- Chapter 4: Everyday Nationality in the Kazakh Nation State -- Part III: Non-Migrants’ Social Ties -- Chapter 5: Relations in the Locality: Ethnic Mixing and Missing Kazakhs -- Chapter 6: Disruption in the Transnational Social Field -- Part IV: The Effect of Two States’ Policies of ‘Germanness’ on Kazakhstani Germans -- Chapter 7: Changing Transnational Institutions -- Chapter 8: The Divergent Ethnic Policies of Kazakhstan and Germany -- Conclusion: Germans at Home in Kazakhstan -- References -- Appendix -- Index