Migrations in the German Lands, 1500-2000

Jason Coy is Professor of History at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina. He is the author of Strangers and Misfits: Banishment, Social Control, and Authority in Early Modern Germany (2008) and co-editor of the Spektrum volume Kinship, Community, and Self (2014).

“The majority of essays deserve being highly praised as many authors provide well-written analyses and insights that are full of detail and highly original…The quality of the volume…ensures scholars working on specific aspects of migration in German territory will find valuable information in it.” • German History“…important for the potential reader, the [diversity of the chapters} make the book a valuable contribution to any academic library, not just for their research but for their potential use in teaching graduate students and undergraduates alike. For graduate students in any historical field, the chapters serve as a kind of field guide to the potential benefits of archival research. For the teacher of undergraduates, these chapters illuminate the work of the historian as well as providing concrete examples of research scattered across the globe and historical epochs.” • English Historical Review“The essays in this volume are thoroughly researched and address important aspects of central European migration, especially on three topical areas: religion and exile; flux and the politics of immigration; and cultures of exile and the formation of exile identities.” • European History Quarterly“…a well-curated volume that seeks to both elaborate on known historical themes and to provide a critical counterpoint to the discussion of immigration and migration today… [This] book is topical and indispensable, providing a wide-ranging and critical discussion. This text stretches across disciplines and is a crossroads for multiple scholars within migration studies. Migrations in the German Lands, 1500-2000 is a significant work for scholars, both now and in the future.” • International Social Science Review“This well-edited, well-written volume represents an important contribution to migration history. Its distinctiveness lies both in its focus on immigration to and within Germany—as opposed to German emigration to other lands—and its unusually broad chronological range, including a welcome emphasis on the early modern period.” • James Melton, Emory University

• List of TablesPrefaceIntroduction: Migration in the German Lands: An IntroductionAlexander SchunkaChapter 1. Martyrdom and its Discontents: The Martyr as a Motif of Migration in Early Modern EuropeAndrew McKenzie-McHargChapter 2. Penal Migration in Early Modern GermanyJason CoyChapter 3. No Return? From Temporary Exile to Permanent Immigration in the Early Modern EraAlexander SchunkaChapter 4. Inventing Immigrant Traditions in Eighteenth-Century Germany: The Huguenots in ContextUlrich NiggemannChapter 5. Between Economic Interest and Nationalism: The Policy Regarding Polish Seasonal Rural Workers in the German Empire before 1914Roland GehrkeChapter 6. Elite Migration to Germany: The Anglo-American Colony in Dresden before World War INadine ZimmerliChapter 7. Immigration in Weimar GermanyJochen OltmerChapter 8. Coming Home? The Return of Italian and German Jews to their Countries of Origin after the HolocaustAnna KochChapter 9. On the Move and Putting Down Roots: Transnationalism and Integration among Yugoslav Guest Workers in West GermanyChristopher A. MolnarChapter 10. Sifting Germans from Yugoslavs: Co-Ethnic Selection, Danube Swabian Migrants, and the Contestation of Aussiedler Immigration in West Germany in the 1950s and 1960sJannis PanagiotidisChapter 11. Staging Immigration History as Urban History: A New ‘lieu de mémoire’?Bettina Severin-BarboutieAfterwordJared PoleyContributorsIndex