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The Unchosen Ones
eBook - Diaspora, Nation, and Migration in Israel and Germany, German Jewish Cultures
ISBN/EAN: 9780253043641
Umbreit-Nr.: 1218678
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 380 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 28.08.2019
Auflage: 1/2019
E-Book
Format: PDF
DRM: Adobe DRM
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- This ';fascinating, original, well-researched, and persuasively argued work' examines the phenomenon of co-ethnic migration in Israel and Germany (Sebastian Conrad, author of What Is Global History?). Co-ethnic migration happens when migrants seek admission to a country based on their purported ethnicity or nationality being the same as the country of destination. In The Unchosen Ones, social historian Jannis Panagiotidis looks at legislation and implementation regarding co-ethnic migration in Germany and Israel. This study focuses on individual cases ranging from after the Second World War to after the fall of the Berlin Wall where migrants were not allowed to enter the country they sought to make their home. These rejections confound notions of an ';open door' or a ';return to the homeland' and present contrasting ideas of descent, culture, blood, and race. Questions of historical origins, immigrant selection and screening, and national belonging are deeply ambiguous, complicating migration even in nations that are purported to be ethnically homogenous. Through highly original and illuminating analysis, Panagiotidis shows that migration is never a simple matter of moving from place to place.