Community without Organizations

Fran Markowitz

doi:10.1525/city.1992.6.2.141

Community without Organizations

Fran Markowitz

Department of Sociology and Anthropology

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Abstract

OVER 300,000 SOVIET JEWS immigrated to the West during the 1970s. Unlike virtually all other immigrant groups, Soviet Jewish emigres have not established viable voluntary organizations. This absence of formal organizations should not be understood as the result of an inability to organize. Rather, it must be interpreted in sociosymbolic terms, as a response to former Soviet citizens' strong valuation of informal self‐help, rooted in their desire to deinstitutionalize their daily lives, [community, Soviet emigres, immigrant organizations, urban anthropology]

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	141-155
Number of pages	15
Journal	City and Society
Volume	6
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1525/city.1992.6.2.141
State	Published - 1 Jan 1992

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Geography, Planning and Development
Urban Studies

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