Migration, Memory, and Diversity

Germany from 1945 to the Present
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78533-838-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 21, 366 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 530 g

Reihe: Contemporary European History

Within Germany, policies and cultural attitudes toward migrants have been profoundly shaped by the difficult legacies of the Second World War and its aftermath. This wide-ranging volume explores the complex history of migration and diversity in Germany from 1945 to today, showing how conceptions of “otherness” developed while memories of the Nazi era were still fresh, and identifying the continuities and transformations they exhibited through the Cold War and reunification. It provides invaluable context for understanding contemporary Germany’s unique role within regional politics at a time when an unprecedented influx of immigrants and refugees present the European community with a significant challenge.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wilhelm, Cornelia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Migrations- & Minderheitenpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Preface

Konrad H. Jarausch

Introduction: Migration, Memory, and Diversity in Germany after 1945

Cornelia Wilhelm

PART I: POSTWAR MIGRATIONS: HISTORY, MEMORY, AND DIVERSITY

Chapter 1. The Commemoration of Forced Migrations in Germany

Martin Schulze-Wessel

Chapter 2. A Missing Narrative: Displaced Persons in the History of Postwar
West Germany

Anna Holian

Chapter 3. Inclusion and Exclusion of Immigrants and the Politics of Labeling:
Thinking Beyond “Guest Workers,” “Ethnic German Resettlers,” “Refugees
of the European Crisis,” and “Poverty Migration”

Asiye Kaya

Chapter 4. Refugee Reports: Asylum and Mass Media in Divided Germany during the
Cold War and Beyond

Patrice G. Poutrus

PART II: INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSES TO MIGRATION AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCE

Chapter 5. History, Memory, and Symbolic Boundaries in the Federal Republic of
Germany: Migrants and Migration in School History Textbooks

Simone Lässig

Chapter 6. Representations of Immigration and Emigration in Germany's Historic
Museums

Katharzyna Nogueira and Dietmar Osses

Chapter 7. Archival Collections and the Study of Migration

Klaus A. Lankheit

Chapter 8. Thinking Difference in Postwar Germany: Some Epistemological Obstacles
around “Race”

Rita Chin

PART III: RECONSIDERING HISTORY, MEMORY, AND IDENTITY IN THE POSTUNIFICATION PERIOD

Chapter 9. Nationalism and Citizenship during the Passage from the Postwar
to the Post-Postwar

Dietmar Schirmer

Chapter 10. Learning to Live with the Other Germany in the Post-Wall Federal Republic

Kathrin Bower

Chapter 11. Conflicting Memories, Conflicting Identities: Russian Jewish Immigration
and the Image of a New German Jewry

Karen Körber

Chapter 12. Swept Under the Rug: Home-grown Anti-Semitism and Migrants as
“Obstacles” in German Holocaust Remembrance

Annette Seidel-Arpaci

Afterword: Structures and Larger Context of Political Change in Migration and Integration Policy: Germany between Normalization and Europeanization

Holger Kolb

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Wilhelm, Cornelia
Cornelia Wilhelm is currently professor of modern history at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich. From 2010 to 2016 she has been DAAD Visiting Professor in the Department of History and the Jewish Studies Program at Emory University in Atlanta and had also held visiting positions at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and Leopold-Franzens-University of Innsbruck, Austria. She is author of Bewegung oder Verein? Nationalsozialistische Volkstumspokitik in den USA (1998); and Deutsche Juden in America: Bürgerliches Selbstbewusstsein und Jüdische Identität in den Orden B’nai B’rith und True Sisters (2007), also published in English translation (2011). She is currently working on an in-depth study on German refugee rabbis in the United States after 1933.