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Deterritorialising the nation? internet and the politics of the / Koukoutsaki-Monnier, Angeliki

Koukoutsaki-Monnier, Angeliki	Journal Article
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2012.

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In this article, analysis focuses on the websites of Greek-American diaspora organisations. The aim is to study these media outlets on two levels: (1) with regard to their communication function(s), in order to understand the spectrum of usages they offer to their visitors; and (2) with regard to the way they signify identity specificity at the crossroads of a parallel ethnic or national adherence. The low interactivity constitutes one of the general features of the media analysed. The persistence of the nation as the framework to apprehend collective belonging and the interaction with the 'other' is another recurrent and important element. The 'identity specificity' of the Greek diaspora community is not presented in articulation to the host society, but in terms of a continuous attachment to a 'mother-nation', as a historic and cultural entity. The nationhood claimed and promoted in this manner is ethnic and cultural, and it espouses the form of an ecumenical and transcendent Hellenism.

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Greek Diaspora ; Diasporic Web ; Ecumenical Hellenism ; Online Transnationalism

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Mapping the social space of transnational migrants on the basis of their (supra)national belongings: the case of French citizens in Berlin / Duchêne-Lacroix, Cédric; Koukoutsaki-Monnier, Angeliki

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In traditional migration theory, social self-identification is usually linked with the process and quality of integration and with the nationality of the countries of ‘origin’ and of residence. But in the context of a supranational integrated area like the European Union, the self-identification of European people living (also) abroad in another European country can be more complicated. What sorts of identity combinations do they produce in this situation? Could we interpret their choice in the light of their social, economic, cultural capitals and (multi)local integration? Based on an empirical analysis of French citizens in Berlin this article confirms that identity self-combining – not just the identity elements – and the position of the ego in the social space are related. The meaning of the same identity category depends on the respondent’s profiles.

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National Identity ; European Identity ; Transnational Migration ; Habitus ; Expatriates ; Social Space

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