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This article looks at ‘educational’ migration instigated by the Danish programme of agricultural apprenticeships, which since the late 1990s has brought many young Ukrainians to rural Denmark. It discusses discrepancies between the logic of achievement implied by the programme’s ideology on the one hand, and Ukrainian apprentices’ aspirations to social mobility on the other hand. In this way, the article questions the concept of ‘community of practice’ that has been used to describe the formation of a social persona sharing the values of this community. Using ethnographic case studies of former apprentices, I argue that while apprenticeships often fail to produce a shared social and professional identity within a community of practice, there are many ways in which the experiences afforded by Danish apprenticeships lead to (sometimes unforeseen) achievements.
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096840
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Situated in Ukraine, post-Soviet Odesa has experienced emigration of its ethnic minorities (Jews, Greeks, Germans), seeing them replaced by Slav newcomers, transnational migrants, traders, and refugees. This migration pattern provides an opportunity to reflect critically on scholarly ideas of 'new diaspora', understood as vibrant cultural mixing. Drawing on Appadurai's notion of 'translocality' and focusing on Soviet generations of Odesans, I argue that some urban residents see themselves as having been transformed into a new diasporic community in their own city. This is due to a particular post-Soviet combination of factors: they have been confronted by demands of the nation-state, their social circle has emigrated, and new engagements have been 'blocked' by a form of tolerance marked by indifference.
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