Migrations in the German Lands, 1500-2000

Published by Berghahn Books 2016

Migrations in the German Lands, 1500-2000

Edited by: Jason Coy , Jared Poley and Alexander Schunka

Volume 13 in the series Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785331459

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Jason Coy is Professor of History at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina. He is the author of Strangers and Misfits: Banishment, Social Control, and Authority in Early Modern Germany (2008) and co-editor of the Spektrum volume Kinship, Community, and Self (2014).

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).

Alexander Schunka is Professor in Early Modern History at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute, Freie Universität of Berlin. He previously taught History at the Universities of Stuttgart and Erfurt. He is the author of Soziales Wissen und dörfliche Welt (2000) and Gäste, die bleiben (2006).

Jason Coy is Professor of History at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina. He is the author of Strangers and Misfits: Banishment, Social Control, and Authority in Early Modern Germany (2008) and co-editor of the Spektrum volume Kinship, Community, and Self (2014).

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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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
TABLES Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
PREFACE Jason Coy, Jared Poley and Alexander Schunka Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Migrations in the German Lands: An Introduction Alexander Schunka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER ONE Martyrdom and its Discontents: The Martyr as a Motif of Migration in Early Modern Europe Andrew Mckenzie-Mcharg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
CHAPTER TWO Penal Migration in Early Modern Germany Jason P. Coy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
CHAPTER THREE No Return? Temporary Exile and Permanent Immigration among Confessional Migrants in the Early Modern Era Alexander Schunka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
CHAPTER FOUR Inventing Immigrant Traditions in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth- Century Germany: The Huguenots in Context Ulrich Niggemann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
CHAPTER FIVE Between Economic Interest and Nationalism: The Policy Regarding Polish Seasonal Rural Workers in the German Empire before 1914 Roland Gehrke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
CHAPTER SIX Elite Migration to Germany: The Anglo-American Colony in Dresden before World War I Nadine Zimmerli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
CHAPTER SEVEN Foreign Policy and Migration in Central Europe: Functions of the German-Polish Recruitment Treaty of 1927 Jochen Oltmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
CHAPTER EIGHT Returning Home? Italian and German Jews’ Remigration to Their Countries of Origin after the Holocaust Anna Koch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
CHAPTER NINE On the Move and Putting Down Roots: Transnationalism and Integration among Yugoslav Guest Workers in West Germany Christopher A. Molnar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
CHAPTER TEN 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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
CHAPTER ELEVEN Staging Immigration History as Urban History: A New “Lieu de Mémoire”? Bettina Severin-Barboutie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Afterword Jared Poley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 270
Keywords: German History; Human Migration; Modern Germany; Migration Studies; Mobility Studies; Germany

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Published: September 1, 2016
ISBN: 9781785331459