dc.contributor.author | ADAMOPOULOU, Maria | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-04-23T09:16:35Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-04-23T09:16:35Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2024 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Berlin : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2024, Migrations in history ; 4 | en |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9783111202303 | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9783111201320 | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9783111203065 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2701-1437 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2701-1445 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/76816 | |
dc.description | Published: 01 April 2024 | en |
dc.description.abstract | Was migration to Germany a blessing or a curse? The main argument of this book is that the Greek state conceived labor migration as a traineeship into Europeanization with its shiny varnish of progress. Jumping on a fully packed train to West Germany meant leaving the past behind. However, the tensed Cold War realities left no space for illusions; specters of the Nazi past and the Greek Civil War still haunted them all. Adopting a transnational approach, this monograph retargets attention to the sending state by exploring how the Greek Gastarbeiter’s welfare was intrinsically connected with their homeland through its exercise of long-distance nationalism. Apart from its fresh take in postwar migration, the book also addresses methodological challenges in creative ways. The narrative alternates between the macro- and the micro-level, including subnational and transnational actors and integrating a diverse set of primary sources and voices. Avoiding the trap of exceptionalism, it contextualizes the Greek case in the Mediterranean and Southeast European experience. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | This book has been published with a financial subsidy from the European University Institute. | en |
dc.description.tableofcontents | -- Introduction -- 1. Nazi skeletons in the closet -- 2. (Un)Civil conduct -- Intermezzo: Tragicomic -- 3. A cursed blessing -- 4. K(l)ein Griechenland -- 5. Junta and Co -- Intermezzo: Dancing on the train -- 6. Open end -- Conclusion | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | De Gruyter Oldenbourg | en |
dc.relation.isversionof | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/73949 | |
dc.title | The Greek Gastarbeiter in the Federal Republic of Germany (1960–1974) | en |
dc.type | Book | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1515/9783111202303 | |
dc.description.version | Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2022 | en |