Communicating Diasporas: Identity Discourses and Symbolic Homes Through the Use of Communication Technologies by Romanian Migrant Workers.

This paper relies on interviews with members of the Romanian diaspora and Romanian migrant workers in London, as well as press coverage in both Romania and Britain, in order to establish the role of returning or temporary diasporas in the current debates between nationalists and Europeanists in Europe. In the current context of European integration, the public dispute between ‘traditionalists’ and ‘modernisers-Westernisers’ in Romania has gained momentum. The so-called 'strawberry pickers' are key to the way the West and Westernisation are viewed in a national context and in the way symbolic geography is imagined and communicated. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]