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Migration, memory, and diversity : Germany from 1945 to the present
Title
Migration, memory, and diversity : Germany from 1945 to the present / edited by Cornelia Wilhelm.
ISBN
9781785333279
1785333275
9781785333286
Publication
New York : Berghahn, 2017.
Copyright Notice Date
©2017
Physical Description
xiv, 349 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary
"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"--Publisher description.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 17, 2017
Series
Studies in contemporary European history ; volume 21
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Preface / Konrad H. Jarausch
Introduction / Cornelia Wilhelm
Part I. Postwar migrations : history, memory, and diversity
The commemoration of forced migrations in Germany / Martin Schulze-Wessel
A missing narrative : displaced persons in the history of postwar West Germany / Anna Holian
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
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
History, memory, and symbolic boundaries in the Federal Republic of Germany : migrants and migration in school history textbooks / Simone Lassig
Representations of immigration and emigration in Germany's historic museums / Katharzyna Nogueira and Dietmar Osses
Archival collections and the study of migration / Klaus A. Lankheit
Thinking difference in postwar Germany : some epistemological obstacles around "race" / Rita Chin
Part III. Reconsidering history, memory, and identity in the post-Unification period
Nationalism and citizenship during the passage from the postwar to the post-postwar / Dietmar Schirmer
Learning to live with the other Germany in the post-Wall Federal Republic / Kathrin Bower
Conflicting memories, conflicting identities : Russian-Jewish immigration and the image of a new German Jewry / Karen Korber
Swept under the rug : home-grown anti-semitism and migrants as "obstacles" in German Holocaust remembrance / Annette Seidel-Arpaci.
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