Date: 2012
Type: Working Paper
Mass Migration, Student Protests and the Intelligentsia Popullore in the Albanian Transition to Democracy
Working Paper, EUI SPS, COSMOS, 2012/02
CHIODI, Luisa, Mass Migration, Student Protests and the Intelligentsia Popullore in the Albanian Transition to Democracy, EUI SPS, COSMOS, 2012/02 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/26175
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After decades under a Stalinist regime, the latecomer transition in Albania began thanks to the large-scale exodus of hundreds of young people which stimulated the mobilization of university students. In turn, the student movement became the catalyst of a wider social mobilization once fear faded away from December 1990 onwards. These experiences were nevertheless short-lived as they ended up absorbed and marginalized by the new political elites that had emerged from the intellectual milieus once 'organic' to the system. Furthermore, such late-in-coming protest waves occurred in a situation of economic and institutional breakdown that constituted a considerable encumbrance for the re-organization of Albanian civil society.
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Series/Number: EUI SPS; COSMOS; 2012/02
Sponsorship and Funder information:
The research project 'Mobilizing for Democracy: Democratization Processes and the Mobilization of Civil Society' is funded by European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant. (Grant Agreeement no: 269136.)