Migrations and Belongings traces burgeoning population flows across several continents from 1870 to 1945 and explains the variables involved and the processes of acculturation by which belonging takes shape. Migration, it shows, is both a critique of unsatisfactory conditions in one society and a contribution of human capital to another.
This volume contains empirical studies on German in-migration, internal migration, and transatlantic emigration from the 1820s to the 1930s, placed in a comparative perspective of Polish, Swedish, and Irish migration to North America. The essays here demonstrate that the three types of migration are indeed fundamentally interrelated. Special emphasis is placed on the role of women in the process of migration.
In the early 1970s, the Commission on Canadian Studies prepared its report under the title „To Know Ourselves.“ Taking a perspective from outside of Canada and a focus on issues of diversity of the 1990s – „our many selves“ – the present study argues that rather than place the beginning of Canadian Studies in the 1960s and 70s, the Study of Canada evolved in three major phases of innovation since the 1840s: (1) the study of natural resources by the Geological Survey since mid-19th century encompassed complex notions of both social spaces inhabited by First Peoples knowledgeable about the terrain and future arrival of immigrant farming families, labouring people, and investors; (2) research on urban as well as prairie societies by social scientists and political economists since the 1920s; (3) from the 1960s on such studies of society became „Canadian Studies“ with an emphasis on literatures. While around 1900, Country Studies in Europe began from self-images propagated by „high culture,“ Canadian Studies, in contrast, began from the analytical social sciences and in the 1960s became a self-study to counter the still predominant colonial contexts. However, it neglected Canada's own colonized Native peoples. Thus decolonization approaches and nationhood perspectives clashed with or engaged each other.
Societies of the early 21st century are composed of many intersecting cultures, defined by status as citizens or recent immigrants and other societal hierarchies. Past-oriented segments of state populations decry the loss of essentialized national identities. What is lacking in this set-up of the debate is the young generation. This volume brings together European and Canadian studies in sociology, history, and cultural studies.
Preface by Ambassador Marie Bernard-Meunier highlights the achievements of the Gesellschaft für Kanadastudien over twenty-five years. Konrad Gross, with assistance from Albert-Reiner Glaap and Marcel M. Fell, reflects on the institutional memory of GKS. Axel Wieger introduces research approaches from German-speaking countries regarding Canada. Ursula Lehmkuhl discusses the contributions of German-speaking geographers since the 1980s, while Martin Thunert examines transatlantic discourses in Canadian history. Martin Küster analyzes developments in Canadian political science research within German-speaking nations. Peter Klaus critiques English-Canadian literature from a German-speaking perspective. Elke Nowak and Nina Reuther provide insights into Quebec and Franco-Canadian studies in Germany and Austria. Hartmut Lutz explores the reception of Indigenous Canadian literature in Germany. Doris G. Eibl discusses women's studies within GKS, emphasizing postnational and interdisciplinary perspectives. Wilfried von Bredow, Dagmar Eberle, and Rainer-Olaf Schultze examine flexible national identities and urban administrations among migrants. Dirk Hoerder reflects on transnational learning and German-Canadian comparisons. The reference section includes a bibliography edited by Günther Grünsteudel, featuring a revised and enlarged edition of Canadiana-Bibliographie.
Der Ostalpen- und Donauraum von den Anfängen bis zum 16. Jahrhundert
Die Geschichte des Ostalpen- und Donauraums bis zum Ende des Mittelalters wird aus der Perspektive der globalen Migrationsgeschichte neu interpretiert. Im Zentrum steht die Alltagsgeschichte, die ein vielschichtiges Bild der Kulturlandschaft zeichnet. Der Autor nutzt eine lebendige und emotionale Sprache, um die komplexen Zusammenhänge und das großräumige Gefüge dieser Region anschaulich darzustellen.
Dirk Hoerder Arbeitsmigration und Flucht vom 19. bis ins 21. Jahrhundert. Peter Gatrell Flüchtlingen ihren Platz zuweisen. Eine neue Geschichte des internationalen Asylregimes 1945-1960 Didier Fassin Vom Rechtsanspruch zum Gunsterweis. Zur moralischen Ökonomie der Asylvergabepraxis im heutigen Europa Jan Philipp Reemtsma Machtergreifung als konkrete Utopie oder: Was heißt schon Symbolpolitik? Wolfgang Kraushaar Aus der Protest-Chronik: 1. Dezember 1950, Warschau
