Migrations in the German Lands, 1500-2000

271 Pages·2016·2.206 MB·English

by  Jason Coy, Jared Poley, Alexander Schunka

MIGRATIONS IN THE GERMAN LANDS, 1500–2000
SPEKTRUM: Publications of the German Studies Association
Series Editor: David M. Luebke, University of Oregon
Published under the auspices of the German Studies Association, Spektrum offers
current perspectives on culture, society, and political life in the German-speaking
lands of central Europe—Austria, Switzerland, and the Federal Republic—from
the late Middle Ages to the present day. Its titles and themes reflect the composi-
tion of the GSA and the work of its members within and across the disciplines to
which they belong—literary criticism, history, cultural studies, political science,
and anthropology.
Volume 1 Volume 8
The Holy Roman Empire, Reconsidered Mixed Matches:
Edited by Jason Philip Coy, Benjamin Transgressive Unions in Germany from the
Marschke, and David Warren Sabean Reformation to the Enlightenment
Edited by David Luebke and Mary
Volume 2 Lindemann
Weimar Publics/Weimar Subjects: Rethinking
the Political Culture of Germany in the 1920s
Volume 9
Edited by Kathleen Canning, Kerstin Barndt,
Kinship, Community, and Self:
and Kristin McGuire
Essays in Honor of David Warren Sabean
Edited by Jason Coy, Benjamin Marschke,
Volume 3
Jared Poley, and Claudia Verhoeven
Conversion and the Politics of Religion in
Early Modern Germany
Edited by David M. Luebke, Jared Poley, Volume 10
Daniel C. Ryan, and David Warren Sabean The Emperor’s Old Clothes:
Constitutional History and the Symbolic
Volume 4 Language of the Holy Roman Empire
Walls, Borders, Boundaries: Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger
Spatial and Cultural Practices in Europe Translated by Thomas Dunlap
Edited by Marc Silberman, Karen E. Till, and
Janet Ward Volume 11
The Devil’s Riches:
Volume 5
A Modern History of Greed
After The History of Sexuality: German Jared Poley
Genealogies with and Beyond Foucault
Edited by Scott Spector, Helmut Puff, and
Volume 12
Dagmar Herzog
The Total Work of Art:
Volume 6 Foundations, Articulations, Inspirations
Edited by David Imhoof, Margaret Eleanor
Becoming East German: Socialist Structures
Menninger, and Anthony J. Steinhoff
and Sensibilities after Hitler
Edited by Mary Fulbrook and Andrew I. Port
Volume 13
Volume 7 Migrations in the German Lands,
Beyond Alterity: 1500–2000
German Encounters with Modern East Asia Edited by Jason Coy, Jared Poley, and
Edited by Qinna Shen and Martin Rosenstock Alexander Schunka
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Names: Coy, Jason Philip, 1970– editor of compilation. | Poley, Jared, 1970– editor of
compilation. | Schunka, Alexander, 1972– editor of compilation.
Title: Migrations in the German lands, 1500–2000 / edited by Jason Coy, Jared Poley, and
Alexander Schunka.
Description: First edition. | New York : Berghahn Books, 2016. | Series: SPEKTRUM :
publications of the German Studies Association ; volume 13 | Includes bibliographical
references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016023122 | ISBN 9781785331442 (hardback : alkaline paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Germany—Emigration and immigration—History. | Europe,
German-speaking—Emigration and immigration—History. | Migration,
Internal—Germany—History. | Migration, Internal—Europe, German-
speaking—History. | Immigrants—Germany—History. | Immigrants—Europe,
German-speaking—History.
Classification: LCC JV8020 .M55 2016 | DDC 304.80917/4310903—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016023122
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“Wherefore, Lipsius, thou must not forsake thy country, but the affections.”
—Justus Lipsius, De Constantia (1584)

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CONTENTS
List of Tables ix
Preface xi
Migrations in the German Lands: An Introduction 1
Alexander Schunka
Chapter 1. Martyrdom and its Discontents: The Martyr as a Motif
of Migration in Early Modern Europe 35
Andrew McKenzie-McHarg
Chapter 2. Penal Migration in Early Modern Germany 51
Jason P. Coy
Chapter 3. No Return? Temporary Exile and Permanent Immigration
among Confessional Migrants in the Early Modern Era 67
Alexander Schunka
Chapter 4. Inventing Immigrant Traditions in Seventeenth- and
Eighteenth-Century Germany: The Huguenots in Context 88
Ulrich Niggemann
Chapter 5. Between Economic Interest and Nationalism: The Policy
Regarding Polish Seasonal Rural Workers in the German Empire
before 1914 110
Roland Gehrke
Chapter 6. Elite Migration to Germany: The Anglo-American Colony
in Dresden before World War I 131
Nadine Zimmerli
Chapter 7. Foreign Policy and Migration in Central Europe: Functions
of the German-Polish Recruitment Treaty of 1927 151
Jochen Oltmer
Chapter 8. Returning Home? Italian and German Jews’ Remigration to
Their Countries of Origin after the Holocaust 173
Anna Koch
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Chapter 9. On the Move and Putting Down Roots: Transnationalism
and Integration among Yugoslav Guest Workers in West Germany 191
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 209
Jannis Panagiotidis
Chapter 11. Staging Immigration History as Urban History: A New
“Lieu de Mémoire”? 227
Bettina Severin-Barboutie
Afterword 247
Jared Poley
Index 251
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TABLES
Table 7.1. Authorization of Foreign Workers 1918–1932 154
Table 11.1. Urban Exhibitions in Chronological Order (1975–2016) 236
Table 11.2. Regional Exhibitions in Chronological Order (2000–2015) 239
Table 11.3. National Exhibitions in Chronological Order (1981–2009) 240