ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the complex combination of motivations and strategies which affected the decisions of some Soviet Greeks to repatriate, to stay, or to return home in southern Russia. It discusses of how migrants experience of transnationalism affects their values and meanings of home and homeland as well as their ethnic and national identities. The chapter focuses on their experience of displacement and outlines the impact which migration has had on the social identities of the Greeks of southern Russia as a transnational community. The analysis of the migrant's practices demonstrates that the social identities of the Greeks who are engaged in the transnational circuit are in constant flux. Navigating their transnational circuit, the Greek migrants strategically use their ethnic and cultural identities, family networks and ethno-nationalist discourses as capital, which they invest in achieving a practical goal a more secure economic and social position as well as emotional and psychological comfort whether in the home or the host communities.
