Greek Diaspora and Migration since 1700 Society, Politics and Culture

Introduction, Dimitris Tziovas; Part I Society and Politics; The Emigré Experience: Case Studies; Chapter 1 Tales from the Dark Side: Transnational Migration, the Underworld and the ‘Other’ Greeks of the Diaspora, Thomas W. Gallant; Chapter 2 Silent Minority: The Greek Community of Eighteenth-Century London, Jonathan Harris; Chapter 3 Greek Merchants in Victorian England, Maria Christina Chatziioannou; Chapter 4 Repatriation, Migration or Readjustment: Egyptian Greek Dilemmas of the 1950s, Anthony Gorman; Chapter 5 Searching for a Motherland: Slav-Macedonian Political Refugees in the People’s Republic of Macedonia (1944–2003), Iakovos D. Michailidis; Chapter 6 No Place is (like) Home: Mobilities, Memories and Metamorphoses of Greek Migrants in Denmark, Anastasia Christou; National Centre and Transnational Periphery; Chapter 7 A Greece for Greeks by Descent? Nineteenth-Century Policy on Integrating the Greek Diaspora, Elpida Vogli; Chapter 8 Defining the Changing Boundaries of Greek Nationality, Dimitris Christopoulos; Chapter 9 ‘Deterritorialising’ the Nation: the Greek State and ‘Ecumenical Hellenism’, Lina Venturas; Chapter 10 The Limits of Political Transnationalism: The Greek-American Lobby 1970s–1990s * Research for this essay was contributed by my research assistant Demetra Fatseas (Bryn Mawr College Class of ’08) thanks to a Haverford College Faculty Research Grant., Alexander Kitroeff; Part II Literature and Culture; Chapter 11 Indigenous Foreigners: The Greek Diaspora and Travel Writing (1880–1930), Dimitris Tziovas; Chapter 12 Between Language, Land and Empire: Humanist and Orientalist Perspectives on Egyptian-Greek Identity, Alexander Kazamias; Chapter 13 The Poetics of Transit: Exile, Diaspora and Repatriation in Stratis Tsirkas’s Novels * I extend my warmest thanks to the Program in Hellenic Studies at Princeton University for the Hannah Seeger Davis Postdoctoral Fellowship, which enabled me to write this article., Eleni Papargyriou; Chapter 14 ‘Be it Ever so Humble’: Nostalgia for Home and the Problem of Return in Post-War Greek Novels, Gerasimus Katsan; Chapter 15 and., Venetia Apostolidou; Chapter 16 The Return of Nikitas Randos: Satire, Memory and Otherness in the Post-War Poetry of Nicolas Calas, Lena Hoff; Chapter 17 The Topos of Home in New Greek-American Writing * My thanks to Yiorgos Anagnostou, Eva Konstantellou and Anne Carson for reading this essay and offering helpful suggestions., Martha Klironomos; Chapter 18 Repatriation on Screen: National Culture and the Immigrant Other since the 1990s, Dimitris Papanikolaou; Chapter 19 The Diaspora Sings Back: Rebetika Down Under, Stathis Gauntlett;

Biography

Dimitris Tziovas is Professor of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Birmingham

’... this collection of essays constitutes a valuable contribution to the study of the overseas Greeks.’ Richard Clogg, Anglo-Hellenic Review 'This welcome and innovative volume brings together a set of international contributors from different disciplines, as well as from different institutional and national backgrounds...' European History Quarterly