International migration as socioglobal mobility.- A preliminary portrait of The Albanian emigration.- Ethnography and the discursive scape.- Portrait of Lumturi F., high school teacher, domestic cleaner, kitchen help, maid.- Greece is better than Albania.- Portrait of Petraq Z., research scientist, plumber s aide, maker of icon frames, champion of capitalism.- Sufferings of the soul.- Portrait of Fatmir R., high school principal, democrat, janitor, maintenance technician, contemporary citizen.- The economic disadvantages of emigration.- Portrait of Llambi S., math teacher, member of Albania s Party of Labor, olive plucker, construction help, lottery peddler, cafe proprietor.- Why emigrants do not return to Albania.- Portrait of Drita H., chemical engineer, domestic cleaner, moviegoer, balletomane.- The world according to emigrants.- Portrait of Ilir, known as Panajotis, embassy child, ex-politically persecuted, internment farm worker, Baker s Aide, specialist of floors, would-be rebuilder of the World Trade Center.- The logic and the experience of emigration.- Portrait of Genci K., student, waiter.- The socioglobal.
EAN/ISBN : 9780387719535
Publisher(s): Springer, Berlin, Springer, New York
Format: ePub/PDF

Author(s): Pajo, Erind