Detailansicht
Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar Germany and France
Comparative Perspectives
ISBN/EAN: 9781137508409
Umbreit-Nr.: 8956142
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: xv, 300 S.
Format in cm: 2.5 x 22.2 x 14.7
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 29.02.2016
Auflage: 1/2016
- Zusatztext
- This volume compares one of the largest instances of 'ethnic cleansing' - the German expellees from the East (Vertriebene) - with the most important case of decolonization migration - the French repatriates of Algeria (pieds-noirs).
- Kurztext
- After 1945 and 1962, Germany and France received millions of refugees and expellees from Middle and Eastern Europe and from North Africa. Bringing together leading international scholars from both fields, this volume compares one of the largest instances of 'ethnic cleansing' - the Germans from the East (Vertriebene) - with the most important case of decolonization migration - the French repatriates of Algeria (pieds-noirs). By shifting the focus away from the origins and forms to the aftermath of these two examples of mass migration, the book explores to which extent postwar Europe was shaped by the integration of migrants. How did this process impact on the definition of citizenship and the construction of the welfare state in postwar Germany and France? How did it alter the associational and political landscape of both countries? Which marks did it leave on the public memory of crucial chapters in their national histories?
- Autorenportrait
- Manuel Borutta is Assistant Professor for Mediterranean history at the Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany. Among his recent publications are A Colonial Sea: The Mediterranean, 1798-1956 (2012, co-editor with Sakis Gekas), and Antikatholizismus: Deutschland und Italien im Zeitalter der europäischen Kulturkämpfe (2011). Jan C. Jansen is Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC, USA. He is the author of Erobern und Erinnern: Symbolpolitik, öffentlicher Raum und französischer Kolonialismus in Algerien 1830-1950 (2013) and co-author, with Jürgen Osterhammel, of Kolonialismus: Geschichte, Formen, Folgen (2012) and Dekolonisation: Das Ende der Imperien (2013).