Migration and mobility in the modern age : refugees, travelers, and traffickers in Europe and Eurasia / by Anika Walke, Jan Musekamp, and Nicole Svobodny.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Walke, Anika, editor.

Musekamp, Jan, editor.

Svobodny, Nicole, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Migration, Internal--Social aspects--Eurasia--History.

Migration, Internal.

Transportation--Social aspects--Eurasia--History.

Transportation.

Migration, Internal--Social aspects--Europe--History.

Transportation--Social aspects--Europe--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2017]

Summary:

Combining methodological and theoretical approaches to migration and mobility studies with detailed analyses of historical, cultural, or social phenomena, the works collected here provide an interdisciplinary perspective on how migrations and mobility altered identities and affected images of the "other." From walkways to railroads to airports, the history of travel provides a context for considering the people and events that have shaped Central and Eastern Europe and Russia.

Contents:

Introduction / Anika Walke

part I. Locomotions : ways of moving

1. Paris-St. Petersburg : shrinking spaces in the nineteenth century / Jan Musekamp

2. "A main station at one's front door" : bicycles, automobiles, and early adopters' dreams of personal mobility in Poland, 1885-1939 / Nathaniel D. Wood

3. Walking with a Tolstoyan dancer : physical and psychic mobility in Vaslav Nijinsky's diary / Nicole Svobodny

4. Russian resorts and European leisure : railroad vacations, "native" sites, and the making of a Russian (post)colonial identity in Manchuria, 1920s-1930s / Chia Yin Hsu

part II. Migrations : people in motion

5. Dynamic Bohemians : the Russian artistic circle in Paris (Russkii Artisticheskii Kruzhok v Parizhe) / Anna Winestein

6. Sex at the border : trafficking as a migration problem in partitioned Poland / Keely Stauter-Halsted

7. Evacuation as migration : the Soviet experience during the Great Patriotic War / Lewis H. Siegelbaum and Leslie Page Moch

8. Far from home : Soviet and non-Soviet railway workers' experiences during the construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline Railway (BAM), 1974-1984 / Christopher J. Ward

part III. Narrations : literatures of migration and mobility

9. Traumatic mobility : motivating collective authorship in Siberian narratives of Polish exiles from the inter-revolutionary epoch (1832-1862) / Elizabeth Blake

10. Technology, the city, and the body : Bergelson and Shklovsky in Berlin / Harriet Murav

11. Andrzej Stasiuk and the myth of the literary gastarbajter / George Gasyna

12. Journeys of identity : from Soviet Jew to German writer / Adrian Wanner.

Notes:

Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-253-02508-7

OCLC:

966640811