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"The strengths of this book lie in the author's analytical approach, creative methodologies, and the breadth of her empirical work. Sanders offers an important perspective on migration by looking at how it impacts those who do not leave. By triangulating what people say with how they think and behave, she points to the contradictions inherent in everyday understandings of ethnicity and belonging." * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI)"Sanders' [seminal study] is a significant contribution to the literature on diaspora, migration and minority studies." * Euro-Asia Studies
"This comprehensive study of the German-Kazakhstanis provides a thoughtful analysis of post-Soviet identity/ethnicity/nationality entanglements. Anyone interested in these issues would benefit by reading this book." * Slavic Review
"Ethnographically rich, the study is based on a fertile mix of quantitative and qualitative methods such as pile sorting, free listing, network analysis, genealogy, participant observation and interviewing of all sorts. The author convincingly demonstrates that not leaving is nonetheless a dynamic lifestyle which demands efforts of fine-tuning and readjustment to a changing social environment." * Florian Muehlfried, University Jena, Germany
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Acknowledgements
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
Kazakhstani Germans and the Study of Nationalities in Central Asia
Concepts of Ethnicity
Based on Cultural Grounds - Ethnicity as a Resource - Categorization and Power - A Product of Individual Life Experience - Ethnic Boundaries as Cultural Schemas
Fieldwork in Taldykorgan
PART I: MEMORIES, HISTORIES AND LIFE STORIES
Chapter 1. Memories and Histories
Shifting Memories of the Past
The Deportation of 1941 - Discrimination against Germans - Transition and Continuity - The Hard-Working German
The Russian Empire: Colonization of the Kazakh Steppe
The Russian Empire: the Settlers from the German States
The Soviet Union: Concepts of Nation and Nationality
The Soviet Union: Its Formation and Nationality Policies
National Delineation - Collectivization - Facing the Menace of the German Reich: The Passport System and Deportations - The Kazakh SSR after 1945
Kazakhstan: The Formation of a Nation-State and the Role of Nationality
'Kazakhization' - Language Policies - Kazakhstani Identity - Kazakhstani Germans
Chapter 2. The Enmeshment of Identities and Life Stories
The Truth of Life Stories
Four Life Stories, Four Identity Types
Soviet Identity - Kazakhstani Identity - Russian German Identity - Kazakhstani German Identity
Summary
PART II: NATIONALITY, POWER AND CHANGE
Chapter 3. Assessing Nationality
Nationality as a Unifier of Territorial Belonging, Language, Religion
and 'Mentality'
Common Ancestry - Language - Religion - 'Mentality'
National Dichotomies
Kazakh Primordialism vs. Russian Constructionism
Kazakhs' Esteem - Russians' Inclusiveness
Normative Entanglements
Summary
Chapter 4. Everyday Nationality in the Kazakh Nation-State
'The Friendship of Peoples-Is Our Wealth!'
Losing Language Hegemony
Identification: Strategies and Emotions
Kazakhstan as a Homeland
Summary
PART III: NON-MIGRANTS' SOCIAL TIES
Migration and Social Networks
Chapter 5. Relations in the Locality: Ethnic Mixing and Missing Kazakhs
The Relevance of Nationality in Personal Networks
The Relevance of Nationality in Marriages
Is there a 'German Community' in Taldykorgan?
Summary
Chapter 6. Disruption in the Transnational Social Field
Relatives and Friends Abroad
Exodus to a 'Historic Homeland'
Views on Germany
Networks and Identity
Summary
PART IV: THE EFFECT OF TWO STATES' POLICIES OF 'GERMANNESS' ON KAZAKHSTANI GERMANS
Chapter 7. Changing Transnational Institutions
The 'German House'
Support from Germany
Socializing with other Germans
A Parish in Transition from 'German' to 'Lutheran'
The German House in Transition
Summary
Chapter 8. The Divergent Ethnic Policies of Kazakhstan and Germany
The Kazakh State's Official Promotion of Interethnic Harmony
The German State's Contradictory Policies
Summary
Conclusion: Germans at Home in Kazakhstan
Identity and Memories
Identities and Identifications
Friendship of the Peoples?
Exclusion through Inclusion: The Role of Personal and Institutional Links to Germany
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