Migration, Memory, and Diversity

Cornelia Wilhelm is currently professor of modern history at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich. From 2010 to 2016 she has been DAAD Visiting Professor in the Department of History and the Jewish Studies Program at Emory University in Atlanta and had also held visiting positions at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and Leopold-Franzens-University of Innsbruck, Austria. She is author of Bewegung oder Verein? Nationalsozialistische Volkstumspokitik in den USA (1998); and Deutsche Juden in America: Bürgerliches Selbstbewusstsein und Jüdische Identität in den Orden B’nai B’rith und True Sisters (2007), also published in English translation (2011). She is currently working on an in-depth study on German refugee rabbis in the United States after 1933.

Acknowledgements



Preface

Konrad H. Jarausch



Introduction: Migration, Memory, and Diversity in Germany after 1945

Cornelia Wilhelm



PART I: POSTWAR MIGRATIONS: HISTORY, MEMORY, AND DIVERSITY



Chapter 1. The Commemoration of Forced Migrations in Germany

Martin Schulze-Wessel



Chapter 2. A Missing Narrative: Displaced Persons in the History of Postwar 
West Germany

Anna Holian



Chapter 3. Inclusion and Exclusion of Immigrants and the Politics of Labeling: 
Thinking Beyond “Guest Workers,” “Ethnic German Resettlers,” “Refugees 
of the European Crisis,” and “Poverty Migration”

Asiye Kaya



Chapter 4. Refugee Reports: Asylum and Mass Media in Divided Germany during the 
Cold War and Beyond

Patrice G. Poutrus



PART II: INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSES TO MIGRATION AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCE



Chapter 5. History, Memory, and Symbolic Boundaries in the Federal Republic of 
Germany: Migrants and Migration in School History Textbooks

Simone Lässig



Chapter 6. Representations of Immigration and Emigration in Germany's Historic 
Museums

Katharzyna Nogueira and Dietmar Osses



Chapter 7. Archival Collections and the Study of Migration

Klaus A. Lankheit



Chapter 8. Thinking Difference in Postwar Germany: Some Epistemological Obstacles 
around “Race”

Rita Chin



PART III: RECONSIDERING HISTORY, MEMORY, AND IDENTITY IN THE POSTUNIFICATION PERIOD



Chapter 9. Nationalism and Citizenship during the Passage from the Postwar 
to the Post-Postwar

Dietmar Schirmer



Chapter 10. Learning to Live with the Other Germany in the Post-Wall Federal Republic

Kathrin Bower



Chapter 11. Conflicting Memories, Conflicting Identities: Russian Jewish Immigration 
and the Image of a New German Jewry

Karen Körber



Chapter 12. Swept Under the Rug: Home-grown Anti-Semitism and Migrants as 
“Obstacles” in German Holocaust Remembrance

Annette Seidel-Arpaci



Afterword: Structures and Larger Context of Political Change in Migration and Integration Policy: Germany between Normalization and Europeanization

Holger Kolb



Index