We are all migrants : a history of multicultural Germany / Jan Plamper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Plamper, Jan, 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multiculturalism--Germany--History--20th century.

Multiculturalism.

Multiculturalism--Germany--History--21st century.

Immigrants--Germany--History.

Immigrants.

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

Germany.

Germany--Emigration and immigration--History--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 274 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

In 2015, Germany agreed to accept a million Syrian refugees. The country had become an epicenter of global migration and one of Europe's most diverse countries. But was this influx of migration new to Germany? In this volume, Jan Plamper charts the groups and waves of post-1945 mobility to Germany. This is a narrative history of multicultural Germany told through life-stories. It explores the experiences of the 12.5 million German expellees from Eastern Europe who arrived at the end of the Second World War; the 14 million 'guest workers' from Italy and Turkey who turned West Germany into an economic powerhouse; the GDR's Vietnamese labor migrants; and the 2.3 million Germans and 230,000 Jews who came from the Soviet Union after 1987.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title page

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 We Are All Migrants, Almost Everywhere, Almost Always - Especially the Germans

1945

2 Twelve-and-a-Half Million in Six Years

3 Labor Migration to West Germany

4 Labor Migration to East Germany

5 Asylum

1989

6 Germans There, Russians Here

7 Jewish Germaniya

8 Welcoming Culture

Conclusion

Appendix: Dates and Facts

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on April 12, 2023).

ISBN:

9781009242271

100924227X

9781009242264

1009242261

OCLC:

1480944526