STUDIES ON LANGUAGE AND CULTURE IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE, Volume 14

Čapo Žmegač, Jasna; Voß, Christian; Roth, Klaus (eds.): Co-Ethnic
Migrations Compared. Central and Eastern European Contexts.
München - Berlin, Verlag Otto Sagner, 2010. ISBN 978-3-86688-126-6.
Geb., 293 S., 32,00 Euro

This book deals with the displacement of the populations that have so
far been studied mainly under the headings of "(co-)ethnic migration"
and "ethnically privileged migration". As the main adjective found in
these syntagmata indicates, these are migrations in which ethnicity
figures as a prominent factor, both at the point of origin and at the
point of the migrants' destination. These migrations have been
engendered by the reconfiguration of the political landscape after
major European 20th-century wars and/or the more or less peaceful
demise of the communist regime in Europe at the end of the last
century. The recent most prominent examples of both of these processes
are the former Soviet Union and the former Socialist Federative
Republic of Yugoslavia. Methodologically and epistemologically, this
volume is an exercise in the comparative treatment of co-ethnic
migrations, in particular with regard to the question as to what
happened to these co-ethnic groups after their resettlement in their
putative ethnic homeland.

A Young Southeast European Researcher in the Spotlight

The Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft (Southeast Europe Association), a mediation body and a centre administering within Germany research in the area of Southeast European studies awarded at its annual meeting on 13 February 2010 two Fritz and Helga Exner Foundation awards to young scholars (Förderpreise). One of them was given to Ramona Lenz for her dissertation entitled "Mobilitäten in Europa: Migration und Tourismus auf Kreta und Zypern im Kontext des europäischen Grenzregimes" which will be published in 2010 by VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften in Wiesbaden.

Research on migration and tourism is usually conducted separately. Ramona Lenz, however, points out various linkages between these two forms of mobility and their infrastructure and analyzes them with regard to the European border regime that promotes some kinds of mobilities while at the same time hampering others. The core of her thesis are the results of ethnographic research in tourist areas in Crete and Cyprus, which Ramona Lenz discusses in relation to mobility opportunities and restrictions in the European Union. The tourism sector as a labor market for immigrants and the varied use of tourist facilities in Mediterranean countries are at the center of the dissertation.