Cultural Change in Post-Migrant Societies

Cultural Change in Post-Migrant Societies
Author: Wiebke Sievers
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2024-01-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3031399005

This open access book links the artistic and cultural turn in migration studies to the larger struggle for narrative and cultural change in European migration societies. It proposes theoretical and methodological approaches that highlight how ideas of change expressed in artistic and cultural practices spread and lead to wider cultural change. The book also looks at the slow processes of change in large cultural institutions that emerged at a time when culture was nationalised. It explains how individual and group activities can have an impact beyond their immediate surroundings. Finally, the book discusses how migration researchers have cooperated with arts and cultural producers and used artistic means to increase the effect of their research in the wider public. As such, the book provides a great resource for graduate students and researchers in the social sciences and the humanities who have an interest in migration studies and want to move beyond interpreting the world towards changing it.

Refugees Welcome?

Refugees Welcome?
Author: Jan-Jonathan Bock
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2019-01-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1789201292

The arrival in 2015 and 2016 of over one million asylum seekers and refugees in Germany had major social consequences and gave rise to extensive debates about the nature of cultural diversity and collective life. This volume examines the responses and implications of what was widely seen as the most significant and contested social change since German reunification in 1990. It combines in-depth studies based on anthropological fieldwork with analyses of the longer trajectories of migration and social change. Its original conclusions have significance not only for Germany but also for the understanding of diversity and difference more widely.

Living in Two Worlds

Living in Two Worlds
Author: Else Behrend-Rosenfeld
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2021-12-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1009020269

This unique collection of diaries and letters offers a vivid personal account of the experiences of a Jewish couple living parallel lives during the Second World War. While their children left for England just before war broke out, and Siegfried soon followed, Else Behrend was unable to obtain her visa in time, and remained in Germany. This volume includes Else's account of her years of persecution under the Nazi dictatorship, and of her life underground in Berlin, before her eventual daring escape to Switzerland on foot in 1944. Her dramatic story is presented alongside Siegfried's account of his very different experience, living penniless and in isolation in England, as well as some of her letters to her close friend and confidante, Eva. Complemented by QR codes that allow readers to listen to Else's own voice from her 1963 BBC interviews. Published in English for the first time, Living in Two Worlds offers an unforgettable and moving insight into the impact of the Second World War on everyday life.

Taking the State to Court

Taking the State to Court
Author: Hans Dembowski
Publisher:
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2001
Genre: Law
ISBN:

These case studies examine the extent to which public interest litigation makes inefficient and often corrupt government officials responsible to the general public.

Challenges of Policing Democracies

Challenges of Policing Democracies
Author: Otwin Marenin
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2000
Genre: Democracy
ISBN: 9057005581

This book explores the diverse situations that police forces operate under. The cross-cultural comparison of democracies highlights how societies struggle with the challenges of preserving democracy whilst ensuring effective policing.

Inside Immigration Law

Inside Immigration Law
Author: Dr Tobias G Eule
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2014-05-28
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1409470156

Inside Immigration Law analyses the practice of implementing immigration law, examining the different political and organisational forces that influence the process. Based on unparalleled academic access to the German migration management system, this book provides new insights into the ‘black box’ of regulating immigration, revealing how the application of immigration law to individual cases can be chaotic, improvised and sometimes arbitrary, and either informed or distorted by the complex, politically laden and changeable nature of both German and EU immigration laws. Drawing on extensive empirical material, including participant observation, interviews and analyses of public as well as confidential documents in German immigration offices, Inside Immigration Law unveils the complex practices of decision-making and work organisation in a politically contested environment. A comparative, critical evaluation of the work of offices that examines the discretion and client interactions of bureaucrats, the management of legal knowledge and symbolism and the relationships between immigration offices and external political forces, this book will be of interest to sociologists, legal scholars and political scientists working in the areas of migration, integration and the study of work and organisations.

Private Life and Privacy in Nazi Germany

Private Life and Privacy in Nazi Germany
Author: Elizabeth Harvey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2019-07-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108484980

Highlights the surprising ways in which the Nazi regime permitted or even fostered aspirations of privacy.

An Irish Sanctuary

An Irish Sanctuary
Author: Gisela Holfter
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 507
Release: 2016-12-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110395754

The monograph provides the first comprehensive, detailed account of German-speaking refugees in Ireland 1933-1945 - where they came from, immigration policy towards them and how their lives turned out in Ireland and afterwards. Thanks to unprecedented access to thousands of files of the Irish Department of Justice (all still officially closed) as well as extensive archive research in Ireland, Germany, England, Austria as well as the US and numerous interviews it is possible for the first time to give an almost complete overview of how many people came, how they contributed to Ireland, how this fits in with the history of migration to Ireland and what can be learned from it. While Exile studies are a well-developed research area and have benefited from the work of research centres and archives in Germany, Austria, Great Britain and the USA (Frankfurt/M, Leipzig, Hamburg, Berlin, Innsbruck, Graz, Vienna, London and SUNY Albany and the Leo Baeck Institutes), Ireland was long neglected in this regard. Instead of the usual narrative of "no one was let in" or "only a handful came to Ireland" the authors identified more than 300 refugees through interviews and intensive research in Irish, German and Austrian archives. German-speaking exiles were the first main group of immigrants that came to the young Irish Free State from 1933 onwards and they had a considerable impact on academic, industrial and religious developments in Ireland.

Deutschland - ein Einwanderungsland?

Deutschland - ein Einwanderungsland?
Author: Edda Currle
Publisher: Lucius & Lucius DE
Total Pages: 574
Release: 2001
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9783828201965

Der vorliegende Band knüpft an die von Friedrich Heckmann 1981 gestellte Frage "Die Bundesrepublik: Ein Einwanderungsland?" an und führt in einem aktuellen Überblick Erkenntnisse aus dem politischen wie wissenschaftlichen Diskurs zum Thema Migration und Integration zusammen. Autoren aus Wissenschaft, Verwaltung, Politik und Medien diskutieren aus ihrer jeweiligen Perspektive die ausländer- und migrationspolitischen Entwicklungen der letzten Jahre und stellen einschlägige theoretische Erkenntnisse und empirische Untersuchungsergebnisse bezüglich der Konsequenzen von Zuwanderung für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland vor. Inhaltsübersicht: Einführung Tanja Wunderlich und Edda Currle Teil I: Das europäische forum für migrationsstudien Der Forschung und der Dienstleistung verpflichtet. Anmerkungen zur Gründung des "europäischen forums für migrationsstudien" (Alfred E. Hierold) Motive und Erinnerungen an Gründung, Aufbau und Erfolg des efms (Viktor Foerster) Teil II: Migration im politischen und wissenschaftlichen Diskurs Der neue politische Diskurs - ein zaghafter Beginn (Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen) Nicht im Elfenbeinturm (Renate Schmidt) Ist Deutschland ein Einwanderungsland? Gedankenansätze aus bayerischer Perspektive (Heinz Grunwald) Deutsche Lebenslügen. Zuwanderung - vom Tabu zum "Mega-Thema" (Alexander Jungkunz) Nach wie vor "blinde Flecken". 50 Jahre "Migration und Massenmedien": Trotz Fortschritten besteht Nachholbedarf (Karl-Heinz Meier-Braun) "Wem Gott will rechte Gunst erweisen.".Wissenssoziologische Auffälligkeiten im Rückblick auf 45 Jahre Migrationsliteratur (Robert Hettlage) Teil III: Migrations- und Integrationspolitik in Deutschland Von der Anwerbestoppausnahme-Verordnung zur Green Card: Reflexion und Kritik der Migrationspolitik (Annette Treibel) Die Ausländerbeauftragten der Bundesregierung in der ausländerpolitischen Diskussion (Bernd Geiß) Das Einwanderungsland Deutschland und die Europäisierung (Verónica Tomei) "Ist Deutschland wirklich anders?" Die deutsche Integrationspolitik im europäischen Vergleich (Hans Mahnig) Die Aussiedlung der Deutschen aus Rumänien in die Bundesrepublik Deutschland und andere Migrationsvorgänge in und aus Südosteuropa (Anton Sterbling) Einschleusung von Migranten nach Deutschland. Ein neues Massenphänomen im migrationssoziologischen Überblick (Thomas Müller-Schneider) Teil IV: Migration und Sozialstruktur Familien ausländischer Herkunft und der Sozialstaat (Bernhard Nauck) Binationale Partnerwahl und Ehe in Deutschland: Trends und Deutungen (Laszlo A. Vaskovics) Economic and Social Perspectives of Immigrant Children in Germany (Joachim R. Frick und Gert G. Wagner) Erziehungswissenschaftliche Migrationsforschung. Ergebnisse eines Schwerpunktprogramms der DFG (Ingrid Gogolin) Die bevölkerungsdynamischen Konsequenzen von kontinuierlicher Zu- und Abwanderung auf Bevölkerungszahl und Altersstruktur eines Landes (Reiner Hans Dinkel) Soziale Differenzierung als ungeplante Folge absichtsvollen Handelns: Der Fall der ethnischen Segmentation (Hartmut Esser) Teil V: Migration und Integration in Städten Bedrohte Stadtgesellschaft? Soziale Desintegration, Fremdenfeindlichkeit und ethnisch-kulturelle Konfliktpotentiale (Reimund Anhut und Wilhelm Heitmeyer) Eine Stadt, verschiedene Kulturen. Das Zusammenleben in der multiethnischen Stadt (Gudrun Cyprian) Fürth und seine ausländischen Mitbürger: Einwanderung und Integration aus kommunaler Perspektive (Dietrich Vogel) Teil VI: Migration in internationaler Perspektive Internationale Wanderungs- und Fluchtbewegungen - eine globale Herausforderung (Jonas Widgren und Irene Stacher) Internationale Migration und das Fremde in der Schweiz (Hans-Joachim Hoffmann-Nowotny) Katastrophenbefürchtungen in einem Einwanderungsland à contre coeur (Andreas Wimmer) US Immigration Policy: Meeting 21st Century Challenges (Philip Martin) Teil VII: Interkulturalität und