The focus of this seminar focuses is Greek migration to the USA at the turn of the 20th century.
It approaches transatlantic movement as an intense circulation of persons (with return flows and repeat crossings) and a broad diffusion of money, goods, ideas, symbols, and information. It puts special emphasis on the ways technology (steamships), the services of this period (post, press and banks), as well as migrants’ networks and self-organization facilitated the communication and connections of the Greek countryside with the mythical and distant American world. It seeks to analyise and highlight the extent to which the economic, social, and cultural remittances of migrants and repatriates transformed life in Greek provinces, as well as local economies in urban centres. Attention will be given to the ambivalent behaviour that Greeks adopted towards the repatriated, as well as to the ways in which Greek-Americans negotiated their reintegration to the local communities.
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