Paths of integration : : migrants in Western Europe (1880-2004) / / Leo Lucassen, David Feldman, Jochen Oltmer, eds.

• Superior document: IMISCOE research
• TeilnehmendeR: Lucassen, Leo, 1959-; Feldman, David, 1957-; Oltmer, Jochen,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, 2006.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: IMISCOE research.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (343 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jan 2021).

In the 1990s, as concern grew in the United States about the integration of large numbers of immigrants, scholars searching for historical parallels looked to the last great period of immigration, from 1880 to 1914. That example, however, is generally viewed as inapplicable to the current immigration debates in Europe. Paths of Integration turns this conventional wisdom on its head, arguing that the history of European migration more closely parallels the U.S. experience than most realize, due to the largely ignored, but extensive, intra-European migration of the same period. By placing the European and U.S. examples side by side, the contributors to this volume offer long-term insights on a question that will be of great importance in the coming decades.

Table of Contents

Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Immigrant Integration in Western Europe, Then and Now / Lucassen, Leo / Feldman, David / Oltmer, Jochen -- PART I: THEN AND NOW: CONVERGENT COMPARISONS -- Poles and Turks in the German Ruhr Area: Similarities and Differences / Lucassen, Leo -- Old and New Migrants in France: Italians and Algerians / Blanc-Chaléard, Marie-Claude -- Rural Dimensions at Stake: The Case of Italian Immigrants in Southwestern France / Teulières, Laure -- Assigning the State its Rightful Place? Migration, Integration and the State in Germany / Schönwälder, Karen -- 'To Live as Germans Among Germans.' Immigration and Integration of 'Ethnic Germans' in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic / Oltmer, Jochen -- Aussiedler in Germany: From Smooth Adaptation to Tough Integration / Dietz, Barbara -- PART II: HERE AND THERE: DIVERGENT COMPARISONS -- Polish Berlin: Differences and Similarities with Poles in the Ruhr Area, 1860-1920 / Praszałowicz, Dorota -- A Passage from India: Trajectories of Economic Integration in London and Mediterranean Europe / Falzon, Mark-Anthony -- Afro-Caribbean Migrants in France and the United Kingdom / Brown, Laurence -- PART III: INSTITUTIONS AND INTEGRATION -- Trade Unions and Immigrant Incorporation: The US and Europe Compared / Schmitter-Heisler, Barbara -- No More than a Keg of Beer: The Coherence of German Immigrant Communities / Schrover, Marlou -- Religious Newcomers and the Nation-State: Flows and Closures / Sunier, Thijl -- American Immigrants Look at their Americanisation / Schneider, Dorothee -- PART IV: CONCLUSION -- Drawing Up the Balance Sheet / Lucassen, Leo / Feldman, David / Oltmer, Jochen -- About the Authors -- References -- Index