The latest issue of hidden europe magazine (http://www.hiddeneurope.co.uk)
has, as usual, some interesting engagements with migrant and diasporic
cultures. This time round, in the issue dated May 2006, there is a feature
on the extraordinary Swedish outpost at Gammalsvenskby in southern
Ukraine, a piece of Europe outside Europe in an encounter with an Irishman
in Boston who has fallen through the social net, and a snippet on how
Poles look set to eclipse the Portuguese as the most numerous cultural
minority on Jersey (in the Channel Islands). The hidden europe e-
newsletter, which for registration is offered for free on the magazine
website, also shows a sensitivity for diaspora issues with mentions over
the past week or two of Polonezköy, an improbable outpost of Poland in the
heart of Turkey, and Lippovan Russians in the Danube delta. In the May
magazine, there’s a mention of an upcoming article in the July issue on
the Croatian village of Zejane, a place with an interesting Istro-Romanian
community.
hidden europe writes in a style which, although academically well
informed, is aimed as a more general audience of non-academics.
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