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Published January 2026 Migration, Dictatorship, and Identity in Twentieth-Century Europe
Siegfried von Vegesack and Werner Bergengruen
Housden, M.
Migration, Dictatorship, and Identity in Twentieth-Century Europe examines the impact of migration on the self-understanding of German authors Siegfried von Vegesack and Werner Bergengruen, and how their experiences of displacement in World War II shaped their authorship.
Subjects: Literary Studies History: 20th Century to Present Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published March 2025
Encountering the Global in Early Modern Germany
Microhistories of Mobility, Materiality, and Belonging
Brauner, C., Dürr, R., Hahn, P., Overkamp, A. S., & Siemianowski, S. (eds)
An exacting re-examination of early modern Germany’s entanglement with European colonial projects, Encountering the Global in Early Modern Germany provides a much-needed global perspective on the colonial “cult of connections” that underpinned early modern Germany’s social, religious, and material culture.
Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Colonial History Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published November 2024
German Migrant Historians in North America
Transatlantic Careers and Scholarship after 1945
Hagemann, K. & Jaraush, K. H. (eds)
The experiences of German born historians who started emigrating to North America in the 1950s has had a unique impact on the practice and project of Central European History. German Migrant Historians in North America intimately reviews these historians’ experiences, career paths, scholarship, motivations and their contribution to Modern German Central European History.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published January 2024
Breathing Hearts
Sufism, Healing, and Anti-Muslim Racism in Germany
Selim, N.
Sufism is known as the mystical dimension of Islam. Nasima Selim explores this definition to find out what it means to ‘breathe well’ along the Sufi path in the context of anti-Muslim racism. Breathing Hearts is the first book-length ethnographic account of Sufi practices and politics in Berlin.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published April 2022
Minority Discourses in Germany since 1990
Gezen, E., Layne, P., & Skolnik, J. (eds)
Minorities and Minority Discourse in Germany since 1990 opens the question of why ethnic minorities in Germany are often discussed in isolation. Whereas most studies examine Black Germans, Jews in Germany, or Turkish Germans on their own terms vis-à-vis the majority German society, this volume takes on unique and comparative perspectives on an increasingly complex German society.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published October 2019
Germany On Their Minds
German Jewish Refugees in the United States and Their Relationships with Germany, 1938–1988
Schenderlein, A. C.
Throughout the 1930s and early 1940s, the United States granted asylum to approximately ninety thousand German Jews fleeing the horrors of the Third Reich. Author Anne C. Schenderlein gives a fascinating account of these entangled histories on both sides of the Atlantic and demonstrates the remarkable extent to which German Jewish refugees helped shape the course of West German democratization.
Subjects: Jewish Studies Refugee and Migration Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published January 2019
Refugees Welcome?
Difference and Diversity in a Changing Germany
Bock, J.-J. & Macdonald, S. (eds)
Combining in-depth anthropological studies with more long-term analyses, this volume examines the responses to and implications of the arrival in 2015 and 2016 of over one million asylum seekers and refugees in Germany – widely seen as the most major and contested social change in the country since reunification.
Subjects: Sociology Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published September 2016
Migrations in the German Lands, 1500-2000
Coy, J., Poley, J., & Schunka, A. (eds)
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. These diverse contributions identify important commonalities between eras and contextualize Germany within broader migration histories.
Subjects: History (General) Mobility Studies Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published September 2013
Fragmented Fatherland
Immigration and Cold War Conflict in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945-1980
Clarkson, A.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published January 2010
Refugees From Nazi Germany and the Liberal European States
Caestecker, F. & Moore, B. (eds)
Subjects: History: World War II Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published November 2009
Immigration Policy in the Federal Republic of Germany
Negotiating Membership and Remaking the Nation
Klusmeyer, D. & Papademetriou, D.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published August 2008
Destination London
German-Speaking Emigrés and British Cinema, 1925-1950
Bergfelder, T. & Cargnelli, C. (eds)
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Refugee and Migration Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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