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.
Recenzijas
The majority of essays deserve being highly praised as many authors provide well-written analyses and insights that are full of detail and highly originalThe quality of the volumeensures 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 Germanyas opposed to German emigration to other landsand its unusually broad chronological range, including a welcome emphasis on the early modern period. James Melton, Emory University
List of Tables
Preface
Introduction: Migration in the German Lands: An Introduction
Alexander Schunka
Chapter
1. Martyrdom and its Discontents: The Martyr as a Motif of Migration
in Early Modern Europe
Andrew McKenzie-McHarg
Chapter
2. Penal Migration in Early Modern Germany
Jason Coy
Chapter
3. No Return? From Temporary Exile to Permanent Immigration in the
Early Modern Era
Alexander Schunka
Chapter
4. Inventing Immigrant Traditions in Eighteenth-Century Germany: The
Huguenots in Context
Ulrich Niggemann
Chapter
5. Between Economic Interest and Nationalism: The Policy Regarding
Polish Seasonal Rural Workers in the German Empire before 1914
Roland Gehrke
Chapter
6. Elite Migration to Germany: The Anglo-American Colony in Dresden
before World War I
Nadine Zimmerli
Chapter
7. Immigration in Weimar Germany
Jochen Oltmer
Chapter
8. Coming Home? The Return of Italian and German Jews to their
Countries of Origin after the Holocaust
Anna Koch
Chapter
9. On the Move and Putting Down Roots: Transnationalism and
Integration among Yugoslav Guest Workers in West Germany
Christopher A. Molnar
Chapter
10. 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
Chapter
11. Staging Immigration History as Urban History: A New lieu de
mémoire?
Bettina Severin-Barboutie
Afterword
Jared Poley
Contributors
Index
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).
