Archiv für Januar 2014

Changing the National Narrative: Evolution in Citizenship and Integration in Germany, 2000-10

The past 10 years of German history give evidence of a paradigm shift in Germany’s national narrative. The early years of the decade were marked by widespread denial at the elite level that Germany was a country of immigration and adherence to a…

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Citizens and Non-Citizens: The Relevance of Citizenship Status in Labour Migration within Italy and to Germany from the 1950s to 1970s

From the 1950s to 1970s large numbers of workers migrated not only from the south of Italy to the industrial areas in the north of the country but also to West Germany. Whereas the former movement was an internal migration within a nation state, the l…

The Multinational Working Class? Political Activism and Labour Migration in West Germany During the 1960s and 1970s

This article looks at the migration policy of the trade unions as well as the political activism of migrants in West Germany during the 1960s and 1970s. It argues that migrants’ political activities have been rather neglected in historiography, …

Migration and Migration Policy: West Germany and the Recruitment of Foreign Labour, 1945-61

Between 1945 and 1961 West Germany experienced one of the greatest waves of emigration in German history. However, before the emigration of Germans to European and overseas countries had even reached its zenith, German migration policy had laid the fo…

Food for Thought: Rethinking the History of Migration to West Germany Through the Migrant Restaurant Business

Research on migration to Germany tends to concentrate on the so-called ‘guest worker’ system and neglects migrants who opened up businesses of their own, above all in food retail and the restaurant sector. After a brief sketch of the histo…

Asylum in Postwar Germany: Refugee Admission Policies and Their Practical Implementation in the Federal Republic and the GDR Between the Late 1940s and the Mid-1970s

This article is a history of the refugee and asylum policies in the two postwar German states from the end of the 1940s to the mid-1970s and describes the developments leading to the 1993 constitutional amendment. In West Germany, the right to politic…

Issue 6 | Focus – “Thousands great saints:” Evliya Çelebi in Ottoman Palestine

Abstract
Evliya’s description of his journey in 17th century Ottoman Palestine is a good example of the importance of travelogue, especially as it gives another viewpoint, that of a Muslim scholar. Through his eyes, it is possible to see the cou…

Musik in Preußen – Preußische Musik? Bericht zur Jahrestagung der Preußischen Historischen Kommission und des Geheimen Staatsarchivs Preußischer Kulturbesitz vom 1. bis 3. November 2012 in Berlin

Forschungen zur Brandenburgischen und Preußischen Geschichte, Volume 23, Issue 1, Page 109-129, 2013.

Die Medikalisierung von Geburt und Geburtshilfe in Brandenburg-Preußen – ein Beleg für die Effektivität der Administration? Anmerkungen zur medizinischen Versorgung und geburtshilflichen Betreuung im 18. Jahrhundert

Forschungen zur Brandenburgischen und Preußischen Geschichte, Volume 23, Issue 1, Page 91-107, 2013.