Greek Americans

Greek Americans
Author: Charles C. Moskos
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2018-12-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351516728

This is an engrossing account of Greek Americans--their history, strengths, conflicts, aspirations, and contributions. This is the story of immigrants, their children and grandchildren, most of whom maintain an attachment to Greek ethnic identity even as they have become one of this country's most successful ethnic groups.

Greek Americans

Greek Americans
Author: Peter C. Moskos
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2013-11-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1412853109

This is an engrossing account of Greek Americans—their history, strengths, conflicts, aspirations, and contributions. Blending sociological insight with historical detail, Peter C. and Charles C. Moskos trace the Greek-American experience from the wave of mass immigration in the early 1900s to today. This is the story of immigrants, most of whom worked hard to secure middle-class status. It is also the story of their children and grandchildren, many of whom maintain an attachment to Greek ethnic identity even as they have become one of America’s most successful ethnic groups. As the authors rightly note, the true measure of Greek-Americans is the immigrants themselves who came to America without knowing the language and without education. They raised solid families in the new country and shouldered responsibilities for those in the old. They laid the basis for an enduring Greek-American community. Included in this completely revised edition is an introduction by Michael Dukakis and chapters relating to the early struggles of Greeks in America, the Greek Orthodox Church, success in America, and the survival and expansion of Greek identity despite intermarriage. This work will be of value to scholars of ethnic studies, those interested in Greek culture and communities, and sociologists and historians.

Studies on Greek Americans

Studies on Greek Americans
Author: George A. Kourvetaris
Publisher:
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN:

This reader combines theory and research in the study of Greek-American ethnicity and identity. It includes chapters on the histories of early and late immigrants, first- and second-generation Greeks in Chicago, Greek Orthodox and Greek American identity, and Greek-American entrepreneurs. It also discusses continuity and change in the Greek American experience and examines the past, present and future of Greek American ethnicity within the larger framework of multiculturalism.

The Family and Its Future

The Family and Its Future
Author: Katherine Elliott
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2009-09-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0470717432

The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and discuss results. The Novartis Foundation, originally known as the Ciba Foundation, is well known to scientists and clinicians around the world.

Historical Dictionary of Modern Greece

Historical Dictionary of Modern Greece
Author: Dimitris Keridis
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2022-06-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1442264713

Greece is a ancient land, blessed with a stunning natural beauty and an inspiring cultural heritage but burdened with history and conflict, it shares many traits and comparable trajectories with its neighbors and countries of a similar background. Modern Greece is a successor nation-state of the Ottoman Empire, created in the early 19th century through the interplay of an evolving Greek national idea, the crisis of the Ottoman state, and the intervention of great powers. Historical Dictionary of Modern Greece, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 200 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Greece.

Brothers and Sisters in India

Brothers and Sisters in India
Author: G. N. Ramu
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 080209077X

Indian society is rapidly becoming more urban, and while the level of urbanization and the values associated with it have yet to correspond with those of Western societies, the traditional ethos governing sibling relations is becoming increasingly less relevant. G.N. Ramu explores this phenomenon in Brothers and Sisters in India, the first detailed study of adult siblings in contemporary Indian society. Based on sixteen months of field work in the city of Mysore and over three decades of research in this area, Ramu's study focuses on the three types of sibling relationships (fraternal, sororal, and cross-sibling), and examines the frequency of interaction, the level of mutual assistance, and the incidence of conflict and strain between brothers and sisters.

Narratives of Place, Culture and Identity

Narratives of Place, Culture and Identity
Author: Anastasia Christou
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2006
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9053568786

Annotation. Christou explores the phenomenon of 'return migration' in Greece through the settlement and identification processes of second-generation Greek-American returning migrants. She examines the meanings attached to the experience of return migration. The concepts of 'home' and 'belonging' figure prominently in the return migratory project which entails relocation and displacement as well as adjustment and alienation of bodies and selves. Furthermore, Christou considers the multiple interactions (social, cultural, political) between the place of origin and the place of destination; network ties; historical and global forces in the shaping of return migrant behaviour; and expressions of identity. The human geography of return migration extends beyond geographic movement into a diasporic journey involving (re)constructions of homeness and belongingness in the ancestral homeland. This title can be previewed in Google Books - http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN9789053568781. This title is available in the OAPEN Library - http://www.oapen.org.