Migration, Memory, and Diversity: Germany from 1945 to the Present

Published by Berghahn Books 2016

Migration, Memory, and Diversity

Germany from 1945 to the Present

Edited by: Cornelia Wilhelm

In the series Studies in Contemporary European History

Volume 21 in the series Contemporary European History

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785333286

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

“All contributions are of a high quality. Moreover, far from being niche studies, none of the 12 essays in the volume loses sight of its broader signiﬁcance. To the contrary, every author endeavours to tie their research to the big historical picture: the legacy of Nazi racial policy, the mass displacements of peoples in the war and postwar years, the use of migration and refugee policy in the service of Cold War propaganda, the recalibration of notions of ‘Germanness’ after 1990, and the ‘Europeanisation’ of migration questions over the past 30 years… While much of its content will already be familiar to scholars in the ﬁeld, the questions it poses and the research; directions it suggests should prove a very useful starting point for further study into Germany’s inter- actions with Europe and the world.” • Journal of Contemporary History

“One of the greatest accomplishments of the volume is certainly that it diversifies Germany’s migration history while simultaneously putting it into perspective both synchronically and diachronically. In addition, the volume has the merit of including immobility in the exploration of migration. Last but not least, it points out blind spots in the exploration of Germany’s migration history and opens perspectives for future research.” • German History

“Wilhelm’s carefully assembled volume offers impressive and fresh overviews of postwar German history…an overall excellent contribution to the history of migration and diversity in Germany. Surely not only historians will welcome Wilhelm’s fine collection.” • Contemporary Austrian Studies

“There is a lot to like about this book, which offers a nice mix of American and German scholars who approach their topics from a range of perspectives. It provides useful scholarly material for specialists while offering an effective introduction for students seeking to deepen their understanding of these topics.” • Adam R. Seipp, Texas A&M University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Preface Konrad H. Jarausch Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction: Migration, Memory, and Diversity in Germany after 1945 Cornelia Wilhelm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I Postwar Migrations: History, Memory, and Diversity
Chapter 1 The Commemoration of Forced Migrations in Germany Martin Schulze Wessel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Chapter 2 A Missing Narrative: Displaced Persons in the History of Postwar West Germany Anna Holian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
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 Asiye Kaya Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
Chapter 4 Refugee Reports: Asylum and Mass Media in Divided Germany during the Cold War and Beyond Patrice G. Poutrus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Chapter 6 Representations of Immigration and Emigration in Germany’s Historic Museums Dietmar Osses and Katarzyna Nogueira Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Chapter 7 Archival Collections and the Study of Migration Klaus A. Lankheit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
Chapter 8 Thinking Difference in Postwar Germany: Some Epistemological Obstacles around “Race” Rita Chin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	206
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Chapter 10 Learning to Live with the Other Germany in the Post‑Wall Federal Republic Kathrin Bower Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	256
Chapter 11 Conflicting Memories, Conflicting Identities: Russian Jewish Immigration and the Image of a New German Jewry Karen Körber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	276
Chapter 12 Swept Under the Rug: Home-grown Anti-Semitism and Migrants as “Obstacles” in German Holocaust Remembrance Annette Seidel-Arpaci Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
Afterword: Structures and Larger Context of Political Change in Migration and Integration Policy: Germany between Normalization and Europeanization Holger Kolb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 366
Keywords: History: 20th Century to Present; Refugee and Migration Studies; Memory Studies

eBook

Published: November 1, 2016
ISBN: 9781785333286