TY - BOOK AU - Le Normand,Brigitte TI - Citizens without borders: Yugoslavia and its migrant workers in Western Europe SN - 9781487536381 AV - D1056 .C585 2021 KW - Yugoslavs KW - Europe, Western KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Foreign workers KW - Government policy KW - Yugoslavia KW - Popular culture KW - Transnationalism KW - Political aspects KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Introduction --; Part I: Seeing Migrants --; Seeing Migration like a State --; Picturing Migrants: The Gastarbajter in Yugoslav Film. Part II: Building Ties --; A Listening Ear: Cultivating Citizens through Radio Broadcasting --; A Nation Talking to Itself: Yugoslav Newspapers for Migrants --; Weaving a Web of Transnational Governance: Yugoslav Workers' Associations --; Migrants Talk Back: Responses to Surveys --; Building a Transnational Education System for the Second Generation --; They Felt the Breath of the Homeland --; Conclusion; 2; b N2 - "Among Eastern Europe's postwar socialist states, Yugoslavia was unique in allowing its citizens to seek work abroad in Western Europe's liberal democracies. This book charts the evolution of the relationship between Yugoslavia and its labour migrants who left to work in Western Europe in the 1960s and 1970s. It examines how migrants were perceived by policy-makers and social scientists and how they were portrayed in popular culture, including radio, newspapers, and cinema. Created to nurture ties with migrants and their children, state cultural, educational, and informational programs were a way of continuing to govern across international borders. These programs relied heavily on the promotion of the idea of homeland. Le Normand examines the many ways in which migrants responded to these efforts and how they perceived their own relationship to the homeland, based on their migration experiences. Citizens without Borders shows how, in their efforts to win over migrant workers, the different levels of government --federal, republic, and local--promoted sometimes widely divergent notions of belonging, grounded in different concepts of "home.""-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2907242&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -