Long-Distance Nationalism: Diasporas, Homelands and Indentities Book

	Figures and tables	ix
	Acknowledgements	xi
	Preface	xiii
	List of abbreviations	xv
1	Introduction	1
1	The relativisation of distance	2
2	Long-distance nationalism	5
3	Methodology and research design	10
3.1	Historical note	10
3.2	Sample characteristics	11
3.3	The size and representativeness of the research setting	13
3.4	Fieldwork update	14
4	The war and its impact on the outcome of this research	18
5	Plan of the book	23
6	Notes	26
2	History, homeland, nostalgia	28
1	The European post-Second World War refugee problem	29
1.1	Slovenians in Argentina	32
2	Memory...	33
3	Innocence...	34
4	Political migrants and their contribution to the formation of a distinct diaspora identity in Australia	35
5	Homeland, nostalgia and the myth of return	38
5.1	The elusive concept of homeland	38
5.2	The ethnic homeland: the questions of time and space	39
5.3	Nostalgia	41
6	Ideas about homeland	42
6.1	Romanticism - second generation respondents	43
6.2	Parents' romanticism through their children's eyes	45
6.3	The second generation's critical attitudes towards the ethnic homeland	47
6.4	The myth of return	48
6.4.1	Second generation Croatian respondents' reflections on first generation Australian-Croatians: returning home	50
6.4.2	Second generation Slovenian respondents' reflections on first generation Slovenians: returning home	52
6.4.3	Second generation Croatians and Slovenians - returning home	54
7	Notes	56
3	Diasporas and community sentiments	58
1	Some limitations of the prevalent discourses on ethnic communities	60
1.1	Ethnic community boundaries and the segmentation of ethnic community space	62
2	Politics, otherness and diasporas	64
3	Conforming to norms and standards in diaspora organisations	67
4	From antagonism to schism	72
5	Diaspora cohesion and the question of generations	74
6	Concerns about the future of diaspora organisations	77
7	The problem of representation in ethnic communities	78
7.1	Whither community	80
8	Notes	81
4	The distant view	83
1	Mediation of information about the homeland	83
2	'Tabloid' political culture as mainstream culture	87
3	Invention, manipulation and legitimation	91
3.1	The maps	91
3.2	The 'Tesla case'	93
3.3	Myths of origin	95
4	Diaspora and party politics: the case of Australian-Croatians	97
5	The contrast: the case of Australian-Slovenians	107
6	The power of symbols	108
6.1	Religious...	108
6.2	...and historical	111
7	Notes	113
5	Constructing the Other	115
1	Slovenian respondents on other ethnic groups from the former Yugoslavia: Southerners - the generalised Other	118
2	Croatian respondents on Slovenians	128
3	Croatians on the 'practical identity' of Yugoslavs	129
4	Croatian respondents on the Other: the Serbs	136
5	Croatian respondents on Bosnian Muslims: search for 'true' ethnicity	147
6	From 'public' to 'private'	151
7	Notes	152
6	Marriage choices	154
1	The key factors which impact on in(ter)marriage in diaspora settings	155
2	'Pragmatism' in the functioning of intimacy	162
3	The construction of marriage markets	167
3.1	Privileged marriage market	169
3.2	Privileged marriage sub-market	170
3.3	Deprivileged marriage market	171
3.4	Anathema market and factors which influence its performance	172
4	The future of marriage choice	178
5	Notes	181
7	Conclusion	183
	Post scriptum	186
8	Bibliography	188