| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Transatlantic Subjects: Acts of Migration and Cultures of Transnationalism between Greece and America. By Ioanna Laliotou. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xii, 257 pp. Cloth, $51.00, ISBN 0-226-46855-0. Paper, $21.00, ISBN 0-226-46857-7.)
Ioanna Laliotou offers a very European look at Greek emigration to America. Using dense theoretical language, government documents, contemporary commentary, and emigrant writing, Laliotou offers a rich account of Hellenic culture moving across borders. Emphasizing how emigrants often took charge of their personal lives, she adroitly explores how transatlantic cultural interactions deepened and broadened Hellenic identity.	1
The term migrant rather than emigrant is used throughout the text. Migrant, of course, suggests continual movement with the possibility of repatriation rather than the connotation of deliberate movement to a new homeland inherent in emigrant. Transnational in Laliotou's context means the continuation of Hellenic identity in a foreign land, as was the case with the Greek diaspora in Egypt. This, of course, is contrary to the social dynamics of the United States. Moreover, many of the habits and motivations she attributes to Greekness are found in nearly all turn-of-the-century emigrants, and many attitudes she considers peculiar to the early 1900s had long-standing antecedents.	. . .

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