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Staying at Home - Rita Sanders

Staying at Home

Identities, Memories and Social Networks of Kazakhstani Germans

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
270 Seiten
2021
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-004-5 (ISBN)
CHF 61,75 inkl. MwSt
Despite economic growth in Kazakhstan, more than 80 per cent of Kazakhstan’s ethnic Germans have emigrated to Germany to date. Disappointing experiences of the migrants, along with other aspects of life in Germany, have been transmitted through transnational networks to ethnic Germans still living in Kazakhstan. Consequently, Germans in Kazakhstan today feel more alienated than ever from their ‘historic homeland’. This book explores the interplay of those memories, social networks and state policies, which play a role in the ‘construction’ of a Kazakhstani German identity.

Rita Sanders is a Research Project Member at the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Cologne. She has worked as a lecturer at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

List of Maps, Figures, Illustrations and Tables

Acknowledgements

Note on Transliteration



Introduction





Kazakhstani Germans and the Study of Nationalities in Central Asia

Concepts of Ethnicity

Based on Cultural Grounds – Ethnicity as a Resource – Categorization and Power – A Product of Individual Life Experience – Ethnic Boundaries as Cultural Schemas

Fieldwork in Taldykorgan



PART I: MEMORIES, HISTORIES AND LIFE STORIES



Chapter 1. Memories and Histories





Shifting Memories of the Past

The Deportation of 1941 – Discrimination against Germans –  Transition and Continuity – The Hard-Working German    

The Russian Empire: Colonization of the Kazakh Steppe

The Russian Empire: the Settlers from the German States

The Soviet Union: Concepts of Nation and Nationality

The Soviet Union: Its Formation and Nationality Policies

National Delineation – Collectivization – Facing the Menace of the German Reich: The Passport System and Deportations – The Kazakh SSR after 1945

Kazakhstan: The Formation of a Nation-State and the Role of Nationality

‘Kazakhization’ – Language Policies – Kazakhstani Identity – Kazakhstani Germans



Chapter 2. The Enmeshment of Identities and Life Stories





The Truth of Life Stories

Four Life Stories, Four Identity Types

Soviet Identity – Kazakhstani Identity – Russian German Identity – Kazakhstani German Identity

Summary



PART II: NATIONALITY, POWER AND CHANGE



Chapter 3. Assessing Nationality





Nationality as a Unifier of Territorial Belonging, Language, Religion

and ‘Mentality’

Common Ancestry – Language – Religion – ‘Mentality’

National Dichotomies

Kazakh Primordialism vs. Russian Constructionism

Kazakhs’ Esteem – Russians’ Inclusiveness    

Normative Entanglements

Summary



Chapter 4. Everyday Nationality in the Kazakh Nation-State





‘The Friendship of Peoples—Is Our Wealth!’

Losing Language Hegemony

Identification: Strategies and Emotions

Kazakhstan as a Homeland

Summary



PART III: NON-MIGRANTS' SOCIAL TIES



Migration and Social Networks



Chapter 5. Relations in the Locality: Ethnic Mixing and Missing Kazakhs





The Relevance of Nationality in Personal Networks

The Relevance of Nationality in Marriages

Is there a ‘German Community’ in Taldykorgan?

Summary



Chapter 6. Disruption in the Transnational Social Field





Relatives and Friends Abroad

Exodus to a ‘Historic Homeland’

Views on Germany

Networks and Identity

Summary



PART IV: THE EFFECT OF TWO STATES' POLICIES OF 'GERMANNESS' ON KAZAKHSTANI GERMANS



Chapter 7. Changing Transnational Institutions





The ‘German House’

Support from Germany

Socializing with other Germans

A Parish in Transition from ‘German’ to ‘Lutheran’

The German House in Transition

Summary



Chapter 8. The Divergent Ethnic Policies of Kazakhstan and Germany





The Kazakh State’s Official Promotion of Interethnic Harmony

The German State’s Contradictory Policies

Summary



Conclusion: Germans at Home in Kazakhstan





Identity and Memories

Identities and Identifications

Friendship of the Peoples?

Exclusion through Inclusion: The Role of Personal and Institutional Links to Germany



References

Appendix

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Integration and Conflict Studies
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-80073-004-7 / 1800730047
ISBN-13 978-1-80073-004-5 / 9781800730045
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