Das neue Wir. Warum Migration dazugehört: Eine andere Geschichte der Deutschen
- Submitting institution
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Goldsmiths' College
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 3034
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- S. Fischer
- ISBN
- 9783103972832
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Das neue Wir is a 400-page monograph with one of Germany’s most prestigious trade publishers, S. Fischer. It is based on extended primary (esp. oral history archive of Documentation Centre and Museum of Migration in Germany, Cologne, where the author transcribed digitised interviews) and secondary research and contains 46 pages of endnotes.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- Das neue Wir is a social and cultural history of migration to Germany East and West, 1945-present, much of it told through life stories culled from oral history research. Following a chapter on similarities between nineteenth-century German mass emigration and the situation of immigrants in Germany today, the book proceeds chronologically from the post-war arrival of 12.5 million ethnic German expellees to labour migrants in West Germany/GDR to post-2015 refugees. The book is a narrative history targeted at a broader audience; an intervention in the post-Syrian ‘refugee crisis’ migration debate; and a reconceptualization of German civic nationhood.