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Migration, Memory, and Diversity -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction Migration, Memory, and Diversity in Germany after 1945 -- PART I Postwar Migrations: History, Memory, and Diversity -- Chapter 1 The Commemoration of Forced Migrations in Germany -- Chapter 2 A Missing Narrative -- Chapter 3 Inclusion and Exclusion of Immigrants and the Politics of Labeling -- Chapter 4 Refugee Reports -- PART II Institutional Responses to Migration and Cultural Difference -- Chapter 5 History, Memory, and Symbolic Boundaries in the Federal Republic of Germany -- Chapter 6 Representations of Immigration and Emigration in Germany's Historic Museums -- Chapter 7 Archival Collections and the Study of Migration -- Chapter 8 Thinking Difference in Postwar Germany -- PART III Reconsidering History, Memory, and Identity in the Postunification Period -- Chapter 9 Nationalism and Citizenship during the Passage from the Postwar to the PostPostwar -- Chapter 10 Learning to Live with the Other Germany in the PostWall Federal Republic -- Chapter 11 Conflicting Memories, Conflicting Identities -- Chapter 12 Swept Under the Rug -- Afterword Structures and Larger Context of Political Change in Migration and Integration Policy -- Index

This article explores the changing perception of "diversity" and "cultural difference" in Germany and shows how they were central in the construction of "self" and "other" throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries affecting minorities such as Jews, Poles, and others. It examines different levels of legal and political action toward minorities and immigrants in this process and explores how the perception and legal framework for the Turkish minority in the past sixty years was influenced by historical patterns of such perceptions and their memory. The article tries to shed some light on how the nature of coming-to-terms with the past ( Vergangenheitsbewältigung ) and the memory of the Holocaust have long prohibited a broader discussion on inclusion and exclusion in German society. It makes some suggestions as to what forced Germans in the postunification era to reconsider legislation, as well as society's approach to "self" and "other" under the auspices of the closing of the "postwar period" and a newly emerging united Europe.

"American Jewry explores new transnational questions in Jewish history, analyzing the historical, cultural and social experience of American Jewry from 1654 to the present day, and evaluates the relationship between European and American Jewish history. Did the hopes of Jewish immigrants to establish an independent American Judaism in a free and pluralistic country come to fruition? How did Jews in America define their relationship to the 'Old World' of Europe, both before and after the Holocaust? What are the religious, political and cultural challenges for American Jews in the twenty-first century? Internationally renowned scholars come together in this volume to present new research on how immigration from Western and Eastern Europe established a new and distinctively American Jewish identity that went beyond the traditions of Europe, yet remained attached in many ways to its European origins."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Kaya, A.: Introduction : (Re)Considering the last fifty years of migration and current immigration policies in Germany. - S. 1-12