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Imagined homes : Soviet German immigrants in two cities / Hans Werner.
Van Pelt Library F1065.R79 W47 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Werner, Hans, 1952-
- Series:
- Studies in immigration and culture ; 1.
- Studies in immigration and culture ; 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Russian Germans--Manitoba--Winnipeg--History.
- Russian Germans.
- Russian Germans--Germany--Bielefeld--History.
- Russian Germans--Cultural assimilation--Manitoba--Winnipeg.
- Russian Germans--Cultural assimilation--Germany--Bielefeld.
- Immigrants--Cultural assimilation--Cross-cultural studies.
- Immigrants.
- Social integration--Case studies.
- Social integration.
- Immigrants--Cultural assimilation.
- Assimilation (Sociology).
- History.
- Germany--Bielefeld.
- Manitoba.
- Manitoba--Winnipeg.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Cross-cultural studies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 297 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- Imagined Homes examines two migrations of similar groups of ethnic Germans from the Soviet Union during the Cold War period. One group came to Canada in the late 1940s and early 1950s, the other went to West Germany in the early 1970s. Each group's process of integration into new urban environments was influenced by their different expectations. Those who came to Winnipeg, Canada, assumed they would be adapting to a foreign society and prepared to enter a new language and culture. By contrast, the immigrants to Bielefeld, Germany, believed they were "going home" and expected their German heritage would ease assimilation. As Hans Werner shows in a cross-cultural comparative framework, the ways in which the two receiving societies perceived immigrants, and the degree to which secularization and the sexual and media revolutions influenced these perceptions, were of critical importance in the immigrant experience.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 One People 17
- Chapter 2 The Receiving City 33
- Chapter 3 The Value of Immigrants 53
- Part 2 Putting Down Roots
- Chapter 4 Self-Reliance in Winnipeg 79
- Chapter 5 Bielefeld: Settling in the Welfare State 105
- Part 3 Reproducing the Community
- Chapter 6 Family Strategies 131
- Chapter 7 Faith Worlds 155
- Chapter 8 The Linguistic Paradox 177
- Part 4 Participation
- Chapter 9 Membership 201.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780887557019
- 0887557015
- OCLC:
- 166321239
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