Migration in the Southern Balkans

From Ottoman Territory to Globalized Nation States

Editors: Hans Vermeulen, Martin Baldwin-Edwards, Riki van Boeschoten
Publisher: Springer Open / Springer International Publishing

ISBN: 978-3-319-13718-6 (Print) 978-3-319-13719-3 (Online)

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Migration in the Southern Balkans

From Ottoman Territory to Globalized Nation States

Editors: Hans Vermeulen, Martin Baldwin-Edwards, Riki van Boeschoten
Publisher: Springer Open / Springer International Publishing

ISBN: 978-3-319-13718-6 (Print) 978-3-319-13719-3 (Online)

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"The idea for the current volume emerged in a working group on migration of the Via Egnatia Foundation.

This working group was established during a conference the Foundation held in Bitola in February 2009."

This volume collects ten essays that look at intra-regional migration in the Southern Balkans from the late Ottoman period to the present. It examines forced as well as voluntary migrations and places these movements within their historical context, including ethnic cleansing, population exchanges, and demographic engineering in the service of nation-building as well as more recent labor migration due to globalization.

Inside, readers will find the work of international experts that cuts across national and disciplinary lines. This cross-cultural, comparative approach fully captures the complexity of this highly fractured, yet interconnected, region.

Coverage explores the role of population exchanges in the process of nation-building and irredentist policies in interwar Bulgaria, the story of Thracian refugees and their organizations in Bulgaria, the changing waves of migration from the Balkans to Turkey, Albanian immigrants in Greece, and the diminished importance of ethnic migration after the 1990s. In addition, the collection looks at such under-researched aspects of migration as memory, gender, and religion.

The field of migration studies in the Southern Balkans is still fragmented along national and disciplinary lines. Moreover, the study of forced and voluntary migrations is often separate with few interconnections. The essays collected in this book bring these different traditions together. This complete portrait will help readers gain deep insight and better understanding into the diverse migration flows and intercultural exchanges that have occurred in the Southern Balkans in the last two centuries.

• "A welcome addition to the migration scholarship on this little-known, fragmented but globally important region. Taken together, the contributions offer a rich blend of history, politics, sociology and anthropology, alongside studies of memory, mobility and ethno-linguistic identity."
  Russell King, University of Sussex and Malmö University
• "This well researched volume is a welcomed addition to our understanding of cross border migration over time in the southern Balkan region. The focus on the transformation of social identities is a testimony to the long term historical processes that underpin large scale population displacements which are far richer than mere ‘migration crises’."
  Eftihia Voutira, Professor, Anthropology of Forced Migration, Department of Balkan Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki
• "Migration is a ubiquitous phenomenon in the modern world. This thoughtful book studies migration patterns and intercultural exchanges within the transnational region of the Southern Balkans against a deep historical background, offering fresh and alternative readings of the past two centuries. From the final decades of the multicultural Ottoman Empire, through the homogenizing efforts of several nation states, to new forms of ethnic and cultural diversity imposed through globalized networks, this important collection of original essays successfully brings together two separate fields within migration studies, those of forced and voluntary migrations. A genuinely transnational volume, both in its scholarly approach and the makeup of its contributors."
  Maria Todorova, Gutgsell Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Myths of the other in the Balkans
Representations, Social Practices, Performances

edited by Fotini Tsibiridou & Nikitas Poulantzas

ISBN: 978-960-8096-05-9
Thessaloniki 2013

Contents:

• Introduction -- Fotini Tsibiridou & Nikitas Palantzas
• Opening Talk Conference “Myth About the Other” -- Marietta van Attekum
• The Social Production of Difference in the Global Hierarchy of Value: Stereotypes and Transnational Experience in Greece and the Balkans -- Michael Herzfeld
• The Other Town: How the Greeks and the Turks perceive mythical neighbours -- Hercules Millas
• The Fanariote myth in Bulgarian historiography -- Raymond Detrez
• The Hellenicity of the linguistic Other in Greece -- Peter Mackridge
• Aspects of Greek “Myths” related to the Albanians during the Age of Nationalism -- Lambros Baltsiotis & Elias G. Skoulidas
• Fear and Desire: Foreign women in Bulgarian National Mythology -- Nikolay Aretov
• Macedon: Communicating the Reality or Myth? An Interrogation by the Provisions of Franklin Rudolf Ankersmit’s Theory on Aesthetic Political Representation -- Gjiorgji Kallinski
• The Representation of the National Self and the Balkan People in Turkey’s New Textbooks -- Kenan Çayir
• Pupils’ perceptions of the Balkan "other" -- Chrysa Tamisoglou
• The Question of the Other in the reminiscences of former pupils of the Bulgarian secondary schools in Thessaloniki and Edirne -- Lyubomir Georgiev
• "If on a cold winter night a foreigner...": Researching the perceptions of student kindergarten teachers about the ethnic Balkan "Other" -- Kostas Magos
• Baba Noel and Yeni yil ağaç - Symbols of the myth of Christmas in schools of the Muslim minority -- Aristidis Sgatzos
• Challenging the Bektashi tradition in the Greek Thrace: Anthropological and historical encounters -- Fotini Tsibiridou & Giorgos Mavrommatis
• "Nahni wa xfendik" (We and the Others): Negotiation of multiple identities in the Maronite Community of Cyprus -- Maria Koumarianou
• On Muslims, Turks and migrants: perceptions of Islam in Greece and the challenge of migration -- Venetia Evergeti & Panos Hatziprokopiou
• A Muslim Saint or a Conqueror: Myths and the Religious Other -- Evgenia Troeva
• Being Albanian in Greece or elsewhere: negotiation of the (national) self in a migratory context -- Ifigenia Kokkali
• Markers of self-identity and the image of the Other in the context of labour mobility in Western Macedonia -- Petko Hristov
• The immigrant self-perception, social status and the myths influence. A comparison study of the Albanian immigrant in Greece and Italy -- Zenelaga Brunilda, Kërpaçi Kalie & Sotirofski Kseanela
• Paradoxes of "Otherness" in Greek Asylum Practice -- Eftihia Voutira
• "Brothers" becoming "Others". The Greeks of Albania in Greece after 1990 -- Vassilis Nitsiakos
• Balkan cinema in Thessaloniki International Film Festival 251 -- Dimitris Kerkinos
• When the Dreams Come True (Bollywood Music and Dance in Bulgaria) -- Ivanka Vlaeva
• "The Making of Balkan Wars" Virtually Articulating a Critique of Balkan Mythologies -- Anna Apostolidou
• "İlk ve en önemli çevreci": Environmentalism and Secularism in contemporary Istanbul -- Aimilia Voulvouli
• Singing or crying: dealing with the fear of ethnic, national, and engendered otherness in Macedonia, Greece -- Marica Rombou-Levidi
• Non-European "Others"? A study on the stereotypical representations of Eastern Turks by citizens of Istanbul -- Nikitas Palantzas
• The "national body": Language and sexuality in the Balkan national narrative -- Costas Canakis
• The Balkan case of "otherness" in the political discourse -- Ana Chupeska
• Annex
• The Program of the Conference

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We published the book Via Egnatia Revisited. Common past, common future with the lectures of the conference of February 2009 and some other articles.

Via Egnatia Revisited. Common past, common future.

Proceedings VEF Conference, Bitola 2009

2010, Driebergen: VEF; ISBN/EAN 978-90-811038-3-1, 104 pp.

Contents:

• Introduction, Marietta van Attekum
• Opening speech VEF Conference, Bitola: About Spirit of Place
• Part I: Looking for traces
  • Valter Shtylla: The Golden Gates of the Via Egnatia in the Balkans
  • Neritan Ceka: Via Egnatia in Albania
  • Viktor lilcik: Via Egnatia in the Republic of Macedonia
  • Zivojin Vincic: Contribution to the international scientific research project "Via Ignacia"
  • Yiannis Lolos: Via Egnatia: the Greek perspective
  • Mustafa Sayar: Via Egnatia on Eastern Thrace
  • Ilknur Kolay: Ottoman Caravanserais on Via Egnatia within the borders of present day Turkey
  • Ivan Vasilev: Via Egnatia in the Bulgarian history (a short historical overview)
• Part 2: The cultural corridor
  • Raymond Detrez: Balkan cultural identity: the choice between the common and the particular
  • Konstantinos Giakoumis and Anna Chistidou: Image and Power in the Age of Andronicos II and III Palaiologos: Imperial Patronage in the Western Provinces of Via Egnatia
  • Dragica Zivkova: Via Egnatia during the Ottoman rule in the Ohrid region
  • Dimitris Gkintidis: Cross-border policies and networks in Greek Thrace (1995-2007)