Refugees welcome? : difference and diversity in a changing Germany / edited by Jan-Jonathan Bock and Sharon Macdonald.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bock, Jan-Jonathan, editor.

Macdonald, Sharon, editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social change.

History.

Politics and government.

Germany--Politics and government--21st century.

Germany.

Refugees--Germany.

Refugees.

Multiculturalism--Germany.

Multiculturalism.

Social change--Germany--History--21st century.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 345 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2019.

Summary:

The arrival in 2015 and 2016 of over one million asylum seekers and refugees in Germany had major social consequences and gave rise to extensive debate about the nature of cultural diversity and collective life. This volume examines the responses and implications of what was widely seen as the most major and contested social change since reunification. It combines in-depth studies based on anthropological fieldwork with analyses of the longer trajectories of migration and social change, and its original analyses have significance not only for Germany but also for the understanding of diversity and difference in a wider sense. -- provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: making, experiencing and managing difference in a changing Germany

Part I. Making Germans and non-Germans

Language as battleground : "speaking" the nation, lingual citizenship and diversity management in postunification Germany / Uli Linke

Diversity and unity : political and conceptual answers to experiences of differences and diversities in Germany / Friedrich Heckmann

Jews, Muslims and the ritual male circumcision debate : religious diversity and social inclusion in Germany / Gökce Yurdakul

Part II. Potential for change

Islam, vernacular culture and creativity in Stuttgart / Petra Kuppinger

"Neukölln is where I live; it's now there I'm from" : children of migrants navigating belonging in a rapidly changing urban space in Berlin / Carola Tize and Ria Reis

The post-migrant paradigm / Naika Foroutan

Part III. Refugee encounters

New year's eve, sexual violence and moral panics : ruptures and continuities in Germany's integration regime / Kira Kosnick

Solidarity with refugees: negotiations of proximity and memory / Serhat Karakayali

Negotiating cultural difference in Dresden's Pegida movement and Berlin's refugee church / Jan-Jonathan Bock

Part IV. New initiatives and directions

Interstitial agents : negotiating migration and diversity in theatre / Jonas Tinius

Articulating a noncitizen politics : nation-state pity vs. democratic inclusion / Damani J. Partridge

The refugees-welcome movement : a new form of political action / Werner Schiffauer

Conclusion: refugee futures and the politics of belonging / Sharon Macdonald

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Refugees welcome?

ISBN:

9781789201352

9781789201284

1789201284

1789201357

OCLC:

1041889142

Publisher Number:

99983220797

40028983114