Unchosen Ones

Jannis Panagiotidis is Junior Professor of Migration and Integration of Russian Germans at the Osnabrück University Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies. He is editor (with Victor Dönninghaus and Hans-Christian Petersen) of "Jenseits der Volksgruppe": Neue Perspektiven auf die Russlanddeutschen zwischen Russland, Deutschland und Amerika.

"Jannis Panagiotidis' thought provoking book compares Germany and Israel with regard to legislation and implementations concerning co-ethnic immigration. Analogies and differences between the two states are carefully analyzed showing how Israel a fascinating chapter of entangled history that questions the currently prevalent reading of ethno-cultural nationalism. Through the lens of legislation and implementations concerning co-ethnic migrants Jannis Panagiotidis thought provoking book highlights the differences between the surprisingly similar states in this regard - Germany and Israel - telling a fascinating chapter of entangled history and questioning by doing so the prevalent reading of ethno-cultural nationalism."—Yfaat Weiss - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem/Dubnow Institute, Leipzig"An extraordinarily important contribution to scholarship that illuminates some of the key issues of twentieth-century citizenship, nationalism, and transnational history. "—Jan Plamper, author of The New We. Why Migration Is Not a Problem: A Different History of the Germans (in German)"A fascinating, original, well-researched, and persuasively argued work that places the phenomenon of migration in the context of the end of WWII, the Cold War, and the post-1989 world, and links it to the history of forms of migration that since the early twentieth century sought to disentangle societies in order to create homogenous nation-states. "—Sebastian Conrad, author of What Is Global History?"Panagiotidis takes full advantage of the potential for comparison, delving into the minutiae of legislation, political disputes, and individual case studies. His conclusions are as insightful as they are startling."—Joseph Cronin - Queen Mary University of London, AJS Review

• AcknowledgmentsNotes on Foreign Terms, Translation, and TransliterationList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: The Importance of the Unchosen OnesChapter 1: Originating DifferencesChapter 2: Free to ChooseChapter 3: Problematic OthersChapter 4: The Watershed PeriodChapter 5: The Soviet ExodusConclusion: The Rise and Demise of Co-Ethnic ImmigrationBibliographyIndex