Discerning Colours in Greyness. Defying Essentialist Representation of Latvian Russian Speakers in Surveys and Public Narrative

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction: Navigating Migration, Post-Socialism, and Diasporic Experiences. Fragmented Lives, Entangled Worlds 1
4. Discerning Colours in Greyness. Defying Essentialist Representation of Latvian Russian Speakers in Surveys and Public Narrative 17
5. “They Categorically Denied propiska to Us because We Are Germans”. The Problem of Internal Migration of Soviet Germans in 1955 –1972 37
6. Diasporic Authority and Cultural Identities in the Armenian Diasporic Field of Post-Socialist Hungary 51
7. The (Im‐)Possibility of ‘Victim Diasporas’ in Russia. The Case of Lithuanian Communities in Siberia 69
8. The Role of Language in the Identity Practices of Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in Israel and Germany 87
9. “Freedom in Exile?” Russian Germans, Jewish Quota Refugees and Their Life Experiences in Siberia 107
10. Memories from the Detached Lands. Soviet Forceful Resettlement Policy in the Eyes of the Chechens, Ingush and Khevsurs (1940 –50s) 129
11. Striving for Futures Past. Citizenship, Memory, and Central Asia-Russia Migration 147
12. Afterword 163