Citizens without Borders : Yugoslavia and Its Migrant Workers in Western Europe / Brigitte Le Normand.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Le Normand, Brigitte, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign workers--Government policy--Yugoslavia--History--20th century.

Foreign workers.

Popular culture--Yugoslavia--History--20th century.

Popular culture.

Transnationalism--Political aspects--Yugoslavia--History--20th century.

Transnationalism.

Yugoslavs--Europe, Western--History--20th century.

Yugoslavs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.) : 28 b&w illustrations, 2 b&w tables

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Among Eastern Europe’s postwar socialist states, Yugoslavia was unique in allowing its citizens to seek work abroad in Western Europe’s liberal democracies. This book charts the evolution of the relationship between Yugoslavia and its labour migrants who left to work in Western Europe in the 1960s and 1970s. It examines how migrants were perceived by policy-makers and social scientists and how they were portrayed in popular culture, including radio, newspapers, and cinema. Created to nurture ties with migrants and their children, state cultural, educational, and informational programs were a way of continuing to govern across international borders. These programs relied heavily on the promotion of the idea of homeland. Le Normand examines the many ways in which migrants responded to these efforts and how they perceived their own relationship to the homeland, based on their migration experiences. Citizens without Borders shows how, in their efforts to win over migrant workers, the different levels of government – federal, republic, and local – promoted sometimes widely divergent notions of belonging, grounded in different concepts of "home."

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

CITIZENS WITHOUT BORDERS

1 Introduction

Part I: Seeing Migrants

2 Seeing Migration like a State

3 Picturing Migrants: The Gastarbajter in Yugoslav Film

Part II: Building Ties

4 A Listening Ear: Cultivating Citizens through Radio Broadcasting

5 A Nation Talking to Itself: Yugoslav Newspapers for Migrants

6 Weaving a Web of Transnational Governance: Yugoslav Workers’ Associations

7 Migrants Talk Back: Responses to Surveys

8 Building a Transnational Education System for the Second Generation

9 They Felt the Breath of the Homeland

10 Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021)

ISBN:

1-4875-3637-2

OCLC:

1226504046