Book description
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 highly readable volume, Jan Plamper charts the groups and waves of post-1945 mobilityâŠ
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Histories of migration to Germany are often stories of problems and failure, of racism and troubled integration. This book does not negate these problems but consciously strives to develop a positive narrative of how migrationâboth emigration and immigrationâis an integral part of German history.
Unlike most other scholars of migration, who envisage a post-national future of German society, Jan Plamper tries to develop a vision of positive national identification with a modern German nation that builds on the insight that âwe are all migrants.â It is the last book the author, a dear friend of mine, wrote before his untimelyâŠ
From Jannis' list on The best books on the history of German, Jewish, and Eastern European migration.
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