Migration and the construction of German identities, 1949-2004
Migration, in its many forms, has often been found at the center of public and private discourse surrounding German nationalism and identity, significantly influencing how both states construct conceptions of what it means to be "German" at any given place and time. The attempt at construc...
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
[2023]
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| Schriftenreihe: | Migrations in history
volume 2 |
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| Online-Zugang: | DE-521 DE-1043 DE-1046 DE-858 DE-Aug4 DE-859 DE-860 DE-473 DE-20 DE-706 DE-739 URL des Erstveröffentlichers |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Migration, in its many forms, has often been found at the center of public and private discourse surrounding German nationalism and identity, significantly influencing how both states construct conceptions of what it means to be "German" at any given place and time. The attempt at constructing an ethnically homogeneous Third Reich was shattered by the movement of refugees, expellees, and soldiers in the aftermath of the Second World War, and the contracting of foreign nationals as Gastarbeiter in the Federal Republic and Vertragsarbeiter in the German Democratic Republic in the 1960s and 70s diversified the ethnic landscape of both Cold War German states during the latter half of the Cold War. Bethany Hicks shows how the regional migration of East Germans into the western federal states both during and after German unification challenged essential Cold War assumptions concerning the ability to integrate two very different German populations |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 162 Seiten) Illustration, Diagramme, 1 Karte |
| ISBN: | 9783110716221 9783110716269 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9783110716221 |