"The history of Russian Germans (Russlanddeutsche) is one of intensive mobility across space and time. In this volume, authors from the fields of history, sociology, cultural studies, and sociolinguistics analyze key issues of the history and present of this globally connected diaspora group from an interdisciplinary angle"--
The history of Russian Germans (Russlanddeutsche) is one of intensive mobility across space and time. In this volume, authors from the fields of history, sociology, cultural studies, and sociolinguistics analyze key issues of the history and present of this globally connected diaspora group from an interdisciplinary angle.
The history of Russian Germans (Russlanddeutsche) is one of intensive mobility across space and time. Today, the descendants of eighteenth-century German-speaking settlers in the Russian Empire live on four continents: Europe, Asia, and North and South America. In this volume, authors from the fields of history, sociology, cultural studies, and sociolinguistics analyze key issues of the history and present of this globally connected diaspora group from an interdisciplinary angle. Contributions address the institutional regimes and networks that shapedand continue to shapethe mobility of Russian Germans on a global scale, the impact of war and violence on the history of this group during the Age of Extremes, and the language shifts that accompanied their multiple global moves. Its interdisciplinary and geographic diversity makes this volume a unique contribution to research on migration, global diaspora, transnationalism, and practices of belonging. By analyzing the multiple pathways of migration, entanglement, and belonging of people designated as Russian Germans in past and present, its chapters provide fresh insight into the making and unmaking of a global diaspora.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Russian Germans on Four Continents, Anna Flack, Jan Musekamp,
Jannis Panagiotidis, and Hans-Christian Petersen
Chapter 1: Russian German History as Global History: Beyond Ethnonational
Frames, James Casteel
Part I: Regimes of Migration and Belonging
Chapter 2: Navigating Global Color Lines: Volhynias German Speakers on the
Move, Jan Musekamp
Chapter 3: Canada Needs Us: An Analysis of Transnational Russian-German
Migration through the Manitoba Provincial Nominee Program, Anna Kozlova
Chapter 4: How Germany Determines what Being German Means in the
Post-Soviet Space, Concha Maria Höfler
Part II: Networks
Chapter 5: Transatlantic Diaspora Activism and Völkisch Heritage: Karl Stumpp
and the Russian Germans, Hans-Christian Petersen
Chapter 6: The Transnational Exchange of Ideas: The Russian-German Dissident
Emigration Movements Impact on Soviet Domestic and Foreign Policy
(1972-1987), Eric J. Schmaltz
Chapter 7: Entrepreneurial Networks of Russian-Speaking Germans across the
Eurasian Space: From a Family Store to a Transnational Supermarket Chain,
Tetiana Havlin
Part III: War and Violence
Chapter 8: The Deportation of Russian Germans to Kazakhstan in 1941 and their
Subsequent Fate, J. Otto Pohl
Chapter 9: Pacifists and Nazi Sympathizers? Narrating the Canadian Mennonite
World War II Experience in the Local Cultures Project, Matthias
Kaltenbrunner
Part IV: Language
Chapter 10: Volga Germans in Entre Rķos, Argentina: Global Changes, Language
Maintenance and Shift, Alicia Cipria
Chapter 11: I don't know where this comes from that they call us Russian
Germans:
The Role of Linguistic, Ethnic, and Confessional Labels in the Former Colōnia
Guarany (Brazil), Lucas Löff-Machado
About the Contributors
Anna Flack is executive assistant of academic affairs at TU Dortmund University.
Jan Musekamp is visiting associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh.
Jannis Panagiotidis is historian, migration scholar, and currently the scientific director of the Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET) at the University of Vienna.
Hans-Christian Petersen is research associate at the Federal Institute for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe (BKGE) and lecturer at the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg in Germany.
