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Ladataan... The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free WorldTekijä: Tara Zahra
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. I read this for a class I was taking about Eastern European history but I think this is a book that is very easy to read. I wasn't my favorite book in the world because Eastern European History is not my favorite history topic but if you do like that topic and you're interested in immigration, this is a great book for you ( ) This is a bit of a shotgun, a dive into random details concerning emigration from Eastern Europe to other places around the world, largely the USA and Western Europe but also e.g. the Dominican Republic and Madagascar. The book doesn't really have a crisp thesis; the focus is on blurred boundaries. Which people are White? Which people are European? Which people are civilized? Which people are slaves? Are people being pushed out or are they being allowed to go? Are people being forbidden to travel or being protected from exploitation? This book covers roughly 1890 to 2010. Maybe the traffic talked about most is from Poland to France, but we hear too about East Germans and Czechoslovakians and Hungarians. Russians didn't get much of a chance to go anywhere! There's quite a bit about Jews getting pushed here and there. No country comes out looking very noble here. All countries want to admit folks who will be good citizens and wants to block or deport people who are lazy, criminal, or difficult in any way. Border control agents make judgments based on prejudice concerning race, religion, ethnicity, etc. This is a book that kind of soaks a person in the complexities and ambiguities of migration. At the very least, the reader will pick up some history. And anybody who thinks the problem is simple, who sees the issues as crisp black and white... they'll be exposed to a full plate of nuances, whether they choose to ingest them or not. näyttää 2/2 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
"A panoramic, eye-opening history of the vast migration of Eastern Europeans to the West by a recent winner of a MacArthur Fellowship. Between 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas, irrevocably changing both their new lands and the ones they left behind. Their immigration fostered an idea of the 'land of the free,' and yet more than a third returned home again. In a groundbreaking study, Tara Zahra brilliantly explores the deeper story of this unprecedented movement of people. As villages emptied, some blamed traffickers in human labor, targeting Jewish emigration agents. Others saw opportunity: to seed colonies of migrants like the Polish community in Argentina, or to gain economic advantage from an inflow of foreign currency, or to reshape their populations by encouraging the emigration of minorities. These precedents would shape the Holocaust, the closing of the Iron Curtain, and tragedies of ethnic cleansing, while also forming notions of social solidarity, human rights, and freedom--whether it be the freedom to move or the freedom to stay home"--Provided by publisher. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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