Memory, Politics, and Yugoslav Migrations to Postwar Germany - Couverture souple

Molnar, Christopher A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0253037727 ISBN 13 : 9780253037725

Editeur : Indiana University Press, 2019

Synopsis

During Europe's 2015 refugee crisis, more than a hundred thousand asylum seekers from the western Balkans sought refuge in Germany. This was nothing new, however; immigrants from the Balkans have streamed into West Germany in massive numbers throughout the long postwar era. Memory, Politics, and Yugoslav Migrations to Postwar Germany tells the story of how Germans received the many thousands of Yugoslavs who migrated to Germany as political emigres, labor migrants, asylum seekers, and war refugees from 1945 to the mid-1990s. While Yugoslavs made up the second largest immigrant group in the country, their impact has received little critical attention until now. With a particular focus on German policies and attitudes toward immigrants, Christopher Molnar argues that considerations of race played only a marginal role in German attitudes and policies towards Yugoslavs. Rather, the history of Yugoslavs in postwar Germany was most profoundly shaped by the memory of World War II and the shifting Cold War context. Molnar shows how immigration was a key way in which Germany negotiated the meaning and legacy of the war.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Christopher A. Molnar is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Michigan-Flint.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Indiana University Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0253037727
• ISBN 13: 9780253037725
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 250
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