This research examines the economic\nnetworks of the Greek post-soviet migrants in Thessaloniki and the various ways\nthey affect (and are affected by) mobility and migration practices, as well\nas the formations and deformations of previous and newer diasporic communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After the collapse of the Soviet\nUnion more than 150.000 Greek natives migrated to Greece (or \u201creturned\u201d according\nto the official narrative), in an effort\nto rebuild their lives from zero in the “homeland of their\nancestors”. From 1990’s until the beginning of the new millennium, These migrants were involved in various\ncommercial activities (mainly inside informal economic zones and thanx to loose\nstate control) often implicating transnational mobility. The fur market, the tourist industry,\nthe construction sector, and the open-popular markets become a privileged field\nof employment and business activity, on which Russophone post-soviet Greeks\nfind a place through hard work and the appropriate kinship or diasporic\nnetworks. Despitethe fact that, among them, Greece\nwas considered as the “final patria”, transnational practices never\nstopped to take placein both collective and individual levels; Germany, UK,\nCyprus, proved to be favorable destinations who welcomed, at least temporarily,\nseveral post-soviet populations including Greeks.The Greek crisis of 2010,\nfollowed by the worsening of living conditions, increased (re)migration\ntendencies to western Europe along with return\npractices to southern Russia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The objective of this research,\nbased on semi-directed interviews and extended fieldwork in acompany owned by\npost-soviet entrepreneurs, was to explore the interaction between migration\nstrategies, economic networks and diasporic communities, and the same time, to put\ninto scrutiny several stereotypes around\n“Greekness” or “Ponticness” based on the myth of the “final\u201d and \u201ceternal\u201d<\/a>patria.Finally, the quest for the linkages between the “rise and\nfall” of specific economic sectors over time, and the post-soviet\nmobility, through the Greek example, reveals various economic and migrating\npractices embedded into the social and cultural norms of the diasporic\ncommunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The research was accomplished by the post doc researchers Dimitris Kataiftsis and Anastasios Grigorakis and was supervised by the Professor of the academic department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies Eftihia Voutira.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “This research is co-financed by Greece and the European Union (European Social Fund-ESF) through the Operational Programme \u00abHuman Resources Development, Education and Lifelong Learning 2014-2020” <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u03a0\u03bb\u03b7\u03c1\u03bf\u03c6\u03bf\u03c1\u03af\u03b5\u03c2\n\u03ad\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1\u03be\u03b7\u03c2 \u03c0\u03c1\u03ac\u03be\u03b7\u03c2 \u0395\u03a3\u03a0\u0391: https:\/\/empedu.gov.gr\/decision\/apo-tis-laikes-agores-stis-oikogeneiakes-epicheiriseis-sta-russian-markets-mia-orizontia-oikonomia-ton-quot-ftochon-quot-os-stratigiki-epiviosis-ton-epanapatristhenton-apo-tin-proin-essd-apo-ta-mesa-t\/<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This research examines the economic networks of the Greek post-soviet migrants in Thessaloniki and the various ways they affect (and are affected by) mobility and migration practices, as well as the formations and deformations of previous and newer diasporic communities. After the collapse of the Soviet Union more than 150.000 Greek natives migrated to Greece … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-projects"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbg-lab.uom.gr\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbg-lab.uom.gr\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbg-lab.uom.gr\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbg-lab.uom.gr\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbg-lab.uom.gr\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cbg-lab.uom.gr\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":800,"href":"https:\/\/cbg-lab.uom.gr\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbg-lab.uom.gr\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbg-lab.uom.gr\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbg-lab.uom.gr\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}