Über den Autor
nRita Sanders is a Research Project Member at the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Cologne. She has worked as a lecturer at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
nList of Maps, Figures, Illustrations and Tables
nAcknowledgements
nNote on Transliteration
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nIntroduction
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n- nKazakhstani Germans and the Study of Nationalities in Central Asia
n- nConcepts of Ethnicity
n- nBased on Cultural Grounds - Ethnicity as a Resource - Categorization and Power - A Product of Individual Life Experience - Ethnic Boundaries as Cultural Schemas
n- nFieldwork in Taldykorgan
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nPART I: MEMORIES, HISTORIES AND LIFE STORIES
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nChapter 1. Memories and Histories
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n- nShifting Memories of the Past
n- nThe Deportation of 1941 - Discrimination against Germans - Transition and Continuity - The Hard-Working German
n- nThe Russian Empire: Colonization of the Kazakh Steppe
n- nThe Russian Empire: the Settlers from the German States
n- nThe Soviet Union: Concepts of Nation and Nationality
n- nThe Soviet Union: Its Formation and Nationality Policies
n- nNational Delineation - Collectivization - Facing the Menace of the German Reich: The Passport System and Deportations - The Kazakh SSR after 1945
n- nKazakhstan: The Formation of a Nation-State and the Role of Nationality
n- n'Kazakhization' - Language Policies - Kazakhstani Identity - Kazakhstani Germans
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nChapter 2. The Enmeshment of Identities and Life Stories
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n- nThe Truth of Life Stories
n- nFour Life Stories, Four Identity Types
n- nSoviet Identity - Kazakhstani Identity - Russian German Identity - Kazakhstani German Identity
n- nSummary
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nPART II: NATIONALITY, POWER AND CHANGE
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nChapter 3. Assessing Nationality
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n- nNationality as a Unifier of Territorial Belonging, Language, Religion
n- nand 'Mentality'
n- nCommon Ancestry - Language - Religion - 'Mentality'
n- nNational Dichotomies
n- nKazakh Primordialism vs. Russian Constructionism
n- nKazakhs' Esteem - Russians' Inclusiveness
n- nNormative Entanglements
n- nSummary
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nChapter 4. Everyday Nationality in the Kazakh Nation-State
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n- n'The Friendship of Peoples-Is Our Wealth!'
n- nLosing Language Hegemony
n- nIdentification: Strategies and Emotions
n- nKazakhstan as a Homeland
n- nSummary
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nPART III: NON-MIGRANTS' SOCIAL TIES
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nMigration and Social Networks
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nChapter 5. Relations in the Locality: Ethnic Mixing and Missing Kazakhs
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n- nThe Relevance of Nationality in Personal Networks
n- nThe Relevance of Nationality in Marriages
n- nIs there a 'German Community' in Taldykorgan?
n- nSummary
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nChapter 6. Disruption in the Transnational Social Field
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n- nRelatives and Friends Abroad
n- nExodus to a 'Historic Homeland'
n- nViews on Germany
n- nNetworks and Identity
n- nSummary
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nPART IV: THE EFFECT OF TWO STATES' POLICIES OF 'GERMANNESS' ON KAZAKHSTANI GERMANS
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nChapter 7. Changing Transnational Institutions
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n- nThe 'German House'
n- nSupport from Germany
n- nSocializing with other Germans
n- nA Parish in Transition from 'German' to 'Lutheran'
n- nThe German House in Transition
n- nSummary
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nChapter 8. The Divergent Ethnic Policies of Kazakhstan and Germany
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n- nThe Kazakh State's Official Promotion of Interethnic Harmony
n- nThe German State's Contradictory Policies
n- nSummary
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nConclusion: Germans at Home in Kazakhstan
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n- nIdentity and Memories
n- nIdentities and Identifications
n- nFriendship of the Peoples?
n- nExclusion through Inclusion: The Role of Personal and Institutional Links to Germany
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nReferences
nAppendix
Klappentext
Despite economic growth in Kazakhstan, more than 80 per cent of Kazakhstan's ethnic Germans have emigrated to Germany to date. Disappointing experiences of the migrants, along with other aspects of life in Germany, have been transmitted through transnational networks to ethnic Germans still living in Kazakhstan. Consequently, Germans in Kazakhstan today feel more alienated than ever from their 'historic homeland'. This book explores the interplay of those memories, social networks and state policies, which play a role in the 'construction' of a Kazakhstani German identity.
