Migration, Memory, and Diversity : : Germany from 1945 to the Present / / ed. by Cornelia Wilhelm.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Contemporary European History ; 21
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Physical Description:1 online resource (366 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Migration, Memory, and Diversity in Germany after 1945
  • Part I Postwar Migrations: History, Memory, and Diversity
  • Chapter 1 The Commemoration of Forced Migrations in Germany
  • Chapter 2 A Missing Narrative: Displaced Persons in the History of Postwar West Germany
  • 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
  • Chapter 4 Refugee Reports: Asylum and Mass Media in Divided Germany during the Cold War and Beyond
  • 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
  • Chapter 6 Representations of Immigration and Emigration in Germany’s Historic Museums
  • Chapter 7 Archival Collections and the Study of Migration
  • Chapter 8 Thinking Difference in Postwar Germany: Some Epistemological Obstacles around “Race”
  • 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
  • Chapter 10 Learning to Live with the Other Germany in the Post‑Wall Federal Republic
  • Chapter 11 Conflicting Memories, Conflicting Identities: Russian Jewish Immigration and the Image of a New German Jewry
  • Chapter 12 Swept Under the Rug: Home-grown Anti-Semitism and Migrants as “Obstacles” in German Holocaust Remembrance
  • Afterword: Structures and Larger Context of Political Change in Migration and Integration Policy: Germany between Normalization and Europeanization
  • Index