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1955 unterzeichneten die deutsche und die italienische Regierung das Anwerbeabkommen, infolgedessen Hunderttausende von Italienern nach Deutschland kamen. Die italienische Zeitung in Deutschland Corriere d'Italia rief ihre Leser dazu auf, ihre Ankunft zu beschreiben und die Texte einzusenden. Arbeiter schrieben, Kinder, die ihren Eltern gefolgt sind, Rentner, Migranten aus den fünfziger bis zu den neunziger Jahren. Hier liegt die deutsche Fassung dieser einmaligen Dokumente vor.

Nandini Gooptu's magisterial 2001 history of the labouring poor in India represents a tour-de-force. By focusing on the role of the poor in caste, religious and nationalistic politics, and on their contribution to the urban economy, the author demonstrates how they emerged as a major social factor in South Asia during the interwar period. The empirical material, concentrated on Uttar Pradesh, provides compelling insights into what it meant to be poor in the urban environment: exploitation in the workplace, the problems of finding housing, police harassment, social and political exclusion by the elite. Approaching the history of early twentieth-century Indian politics from this perspective, the author takes issue with current interpretations of sectarian and nationalist politics which argue the salience of community identity and the irrelevance of class in political analysis. This book will interest those concerned with urban social history, ethnic and sectarian conflict, nationalism, and the politics of poverty, labour and class relations