Book Cover; Half-Title; Series-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Britain and west Germany in the post-war period; 2 Immigration policy-immigrant policy; 3 Life and work in post-war Britain; 4 Welfare and support; 5 Fifty years on; 6 Five life stories; Summary; Notes; List of archives; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Based on rich British and German governmental and non-governmental archive sources, contemporary newspaper articles and nearly eighty biographically-oriented interviews with German migrants, this outstanding volume, a must-read for students and scholars in the fields of social history, sociology and migration studies, expertly encompasses political as well as social-historical questions and engages with the social, economic and cultural situation of German immigrants to Britain from a life-historical perspective
