Migrations in the German Lands, 1500-2000 / Edition 1

by Jason Coy, Jared Poley, Alexander Schunka

Overview

Migration to, from, and within German-speaking lands has been a dynamic force in Central European history for centuries. Exemplifying some of the most exciting recent research on historical mobility, the essays collected here reconstruct the experiences of vagrants, laborers, religious exiles, refugees, and other migrants during the last five hundred years of German history. With diverse contributions ranging from early modern martyrdom to post–Cold War commemoration efforts, this volume identifies revealing commonalities shared by different eras while also placing the German case within the broader contexts of European and global migration.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781785331442
Publisher:	Berghahn Books
Publication date:	09/01/2016
Series:	Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association , #13
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 6.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Jared Poley is Professor of History at Georgia State University. He is the author of Decolonization in Germany: Weimar Narratives of Colonial Loss and Foreign Occupation (2005) and The Devil's Riches: A Modern History of Greed (2016). He is a co-editor of the Spektrum collections Conversion and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Germany (2012) and Kinship, Community, and Self (2014).

Table of Contents

List of Tables ix

Preface xi

Migrations in the German Lands: An Introduction Alexander Schunka 1

Chapter 1 Martyrdom and its Discontents: The Martyr as a Motif of Migration in Early Modern Europe Andrew McKenzie-McHarg 35

Chapter 2 Penal Migration in Early Modern Germany Jason P. Coy 51

Chapter 3 No Return? Temporary Exile and Permanent Immigration among Confessional Migrants in the Early Modern Era Alexander Schunka 67

Chapter 4 Inventing Immigrant Traditions in Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-Century Germany: The Huguenots in Context Ulrich Niggemann 88

Chapter 5 Between Economic Interest and Nationalism: The Policy Regarding Polish Seasonal Rural Workers in the German Empire before 1914 Roland Gebrke 110

Chapter 6 Elite Migration to Germany: The Anglo-American Colony in Dresden before World War I Nadine Zimmerli 131

Chapter 7 Foreign Policy and Migration in Central Europe: Functions of the German-Polish Recruitment Treaty of 1927 Jochen Oltmer 151

Chapter 8 Returning Home? Italian and German Jews' Remigration to Their Countries of Origin after the Holocaust Anna Koch 173

Chapter 9 On the Move and Putting Down Roots: Transnationalism and Integration among Yugoslav Guest Workers in West Germany Christopher A. Molnar 191

Chapter 10 Sifting Germans from Yugoslavs: Co-ethnic Selection, Danube Swabian Migrants, and the Contestation of Aussiedler Immigration in West Germany in the 1950s and 1960s Jannis Panagiotidis 209

Chapter 11 Staging Immigration History as Urban History: A New "Lieu de Mémoire"? Bettina Severin-Barboutie 227

Afterword Jared Poley 247

Index 251

Editorial Reviews

"The majority of essays deserve being highly praised as many authors provide well-written analyses and insights that are full of detail and highly original...The quality of the volume...ensures scholars working on specific aspects of migration in German territory will find valuable information in it." - German History

"...important for the potential reader, the [diversity of the chapters} make the book a valuable contribution to any academic library, not just for their research but for their potential use in teaching graduate students and undergraduates alike. For graduate students in any historical field, the chapters serve as a kind of field guide to the potential benefits of archival research. For the teacher of undergraduates, these chapters illuminate the work of the historian as well as providing concrete examples of research scattered across the globe and historical epochs." - English Historical Review

"The essays in this volume are thoroughly researched and address important aspects of central European migration, especially on three topical areas: religion and exile; flux and the politics of immigration; and cultures of exile and the formation of exile identities." - European History Quarterly

"...a well-curated volume that seeks to both elaborate on known historical themes and to provide a critical counterpoint to the discussion of immigration and migration today... [This] book is topical and indispensable, providing a wide-ranging and critical discussion. This text stretches across disciplines and is a crossroads for multiple scholars within migration studies. Migrations in the German Lands, 1500-2000 is a significant work for scholars, both now and in the future." - International Social Science Review

"This well-edited, well-written volume represents an important contribution to migration history. Its distinctiveness lies both in its focus on immigration to and within Germany--as opposed to German emigration to other lands--and its unusually broad chronological range, including a welcome emphasis on the early modern period." - James Melton, Emory University

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