PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Ruxandra Trandafoiu is a Reader in Communication at Edge Hill University, UK. She has published Diaspora Online: Identity Politics and Romanian Migrants (Berghahn), and co-edited Media and Cosmopolitanism (Peter Lang) and The Globalization of Musics in Transit: Musical Migration and Tourism (Routledge). Her research focuses on the role of social media in the political engagement and activism of Eastern European diasporas, the political effect of Brexit on EU nationals in the UK, the impact of music and music policy on the identity of place in Eastern Europe, and on transmedia practices seen as migration practices.
Nowadays, Eastern Europe has come back into focus, mainly because of political decisions related to the decline of democracy. It is therefore not surprising that Hungary, Poland and Romania are mentioned the most in Trandafoiu's book as well. However, it is important to point out that the author does not provide a comparative analysis of countries selected according to some criteria, but rather tries to present the migration processes affecting the region and the national responses to them as having a more general validity. […] we find a good number of novel interpretations, less discussed matters, or connections that have not been thematized so far. It is therefore worth reading for experts dealing with the topic, but the book is primarily recommended for readers familiar with current issues related to migration in the region, and it can certainly be used excellently as a reference in university courses. Eszter Kovács, Institute for Minority Studies, Budapest
