Immigration and German identity in the Federal Republic of Germany from 1945 to 2006 / Duncan Cooper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooper, Duncan.

Contributor:

Dorothy Mann Yeakel & Paul Herbert Yeakel Memorial Fund.

Series:

Studies in migration and minorities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--Cultural assimilation--Germany--Public opinion.

Immigrants.

Immigrants--Cultural assimilation--Germany--History--20th century.

Public opinion--Germany--History--20th century.

Public opinion.

Ethnic relations.

History.

Emigration and immigration.

Immigrants--Cultural assimilation.

Germany.

Germany--Emigration and immigration--Public opinion.

Germany--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.

Germany--Ethnic relations--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

xviii, 518 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Lit ; [London] : [Global, distributor], 2012.

Summary:

This study by Cooper (PhD, sociology, U. of Osnabrück, Germany) examines how Germans living in the Federal Republic of Germany (prior to unification, West Germany) changed their perceptions of immigrants from different parts of the world and with different cultural backgrounds between 1945 and 2006. He relates changing perceptions of immigrants to changing perceptions of German identity in the Federal Republic. He argues that changing views towards immigrants reflect the dwindling importance of an ethno-cultural form of German identity and its replacement by more diffuse forms of state identity created by the population's integration into the different structures of the welfare state. Distributed in North America by ISBS. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Dorothy Mann Yeakel & Paul Herbert Yeakel Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9783643901477

364390147X

OCLC:

776777912