Citizens without borders : Yugoslavia and its migrant workers in western Europe /
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 labor migrants who left to work in western Europe in th...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto ; Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
[2021]
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| 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 labor migrants who left to work in western Europe in the 1960s and 1970s. It examines how migrants were perceived by policymakers 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." |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781487525156 148752515X 9781487507503 148750750X |