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In: Documents in history series
In: Palgrave studies in oral history series
In: Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany
In: European history quarterly, Band 48, Heft 1, S. 142-147
ISSN: 1461-7110
In: Social science history: the official journal of the Social Science History Association, Band 40, Heft 4, S. 657-682
ISSN: 1527-8034
The history of German research and writing about migration has been heavily influenced by politics. The assumptions and methods of successive generations of migration researchers demonstrate the interplay of social science and politics across very different political regimes. Soon after serious research began in the late nineteenth century, migration researchers divided into two camps. Urban statisticians with liberal political ideas used city migration registration data to analyze the circulatory movement of migrants within Germany. Conservative writers used census data to argue that migration was essentially movement from countryside to city, and was politically and morally injurious to the German people. These two sides hardened after World War I, as the conservative side increasingly incorporated racist ideas into their critique of migration. This debate continued even after the Nazis took power in 1933 with the competing publications of Rudolf Heberle and Wilhelm Brepohl. Heberle was forced to leave Germany and Brepohl became the Nazis' favorite analyst of migration. After 1945, Brepohl retained his standing as a leading migration researcher in the German Federal Republic. The dominance of this conservative interpretation of migration continued into the 1970s. In recent decades, the writings of the liberal statisticians from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have been rediscovered, and German migration research has shifted again toward a more empirically based understanding of migration.
In: Central European history, Band 48, Heft 3, S. 437-439
ISSN: 1569-1616
In: European history quarterly, Band 45, Heft 3, S. 554-556
ISSN: 1461-7110
In: European history quarterly, Band 45, Heft 2, S. 388-389
ISSN: 1461-7110
In: Central European history, Band 48, Heft 1, S. 123-124
ISSN: 1569-1616
In: Central European history, Band 46, Heft 3, S. 676-678
ISSN: 1569-1616
In: European history quarterly, Band 43, Heft 3, S. 556-558
ISSN: 1461-7110
In: Central European history, Band 45, Heft 4, S. 800-802
ISSN: 1569-1616
In: European history quarterly, Band 42, Heft 3, S. 539-541
ISSN: 1461-7110
In: Central European history, Band 43, Heft 1, S. 198-200
ISSN: 1569-1616
In: Central European history, Band 42, Heft 1, S. 154-157
ISSN: 1569-1616