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Title Germany in transit : nation and migration, 1955-2005 / edited by Deniz Göktürk, David Gramling, Anton Kaes
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 588 pages) : illustrations
Series Weimar and now ; 40
Weimar and now ; 40.
Contents Introduction : a German dream? -- 1. Working guests : Gastarbeiter and green card holders -- 2. Our socialist friends : foreigners in East Germany -- 3. Is the boat full? Xenophobia, racism, and violence -- 4. What is a German? Legislating national identity -- 5. Religion and diaspora : Muslims, Jews, and Christians -- 6. Promoting diversity : institutions of multiculturalism -- 7. An immigration country? The limits of culture -- 8. Living in two worlds? Domestic space, family, and community -- 9. Writing back : literature and multilingualism -- 10. A Turkish Germany : film, music, and everyday life -- Epilogue : Global already?
Summary How does migration change a nation? Germany in Transit is the first sourcebook to illuminate the country's transition into a multiethnic society--from the arrival of the first guest workers in the mid-1950s to the most recent reforms in immigration and citizenship law. The book charts the highly contentious debates about migrant labor, human rights, multiculturalism, and globalization that have unfolded in Germany over the past fifty years--debates that resonate far beyond national borders. This cultural history in documents offers a rich archive for the comparative study of modern Germany against the backdrop of European integration, transnational migration, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Divided into eleven thematic chapters, Germany in Transit includes 200 original texts in English translation, as well as a historical introduction, chronology, glossary, bibliography, and filmography
Notes Documents translated from German
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 517-542) and index
Includes filmography: pages 543-551
Notes Print version record
Subject Cultural pluralism -- Germany -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
Cultural pluralism -- Germany -- History -- 21st century -- Sources
Xenophobia -- Germany -- Sources
Immigrants -- Germany -- Social conditions -- Sources
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
Cultural pluralism
Emigration and immigration
Ethnic relations
Immigrants -- Social conditions
Race relations
Xenophobia
Migratie (demografie)
Multiculturele samenlevingen.
SUBJECT Germany -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
Germany -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 21st century -- Sources
Germany -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
Germany -- Race relations -- History -- 21st century -- Sources
Germany -- Emigration and immigration -- Sources
Subject Germany
Duitsland.
Genre/Form History
Sources
Form Electronic book
Author Göktürk, Deniz, 1963-
Gramling, David, 1976-
Kaes, Anton
LC no. 2006011622
ISBN 9780520940017
0520940016
9781435611337
1435611330
0520248937
9780520248939
0520248945
9780520248946