Paths of Integration

by Lucassen, Leo

• ISBN13: 9789053568835
• ISBN10: 9053568832
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-10-15
• Publisher: Amsterdam Univ Pr

Summary

In the 1990s, as concern grew in the United States about the integration of large numbers of immigrants, scholars searching for historical parallels looked to the last great period of immigration, from 1880 to 1914. That example, however, is generally viewed as inapplicable to the current immigration debates in Europe. Paths of Integration turns this conventional wisdom on its head, arguing that the history of European migration more closely parallels the U.S. experience than most realize, due to the largely ignored, but extensive, intra-European migration of the same period. By placing the European and U.S. examples side by side, the contributors to this volume offer long-term insights on a question that will be of great importance in the coming decades.

Author Biography

Leo Lucassen is professor of social history at the University of Leiden and associate professor at the University of Amsterdam. David Feldman is senior lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London. Jochen Oltmer is affiliated with the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies at the University of Osnabrück.

Table of Contents

Leo Lucassen, David Feldman and Jochen Oltmer
Immigrant Integration in Western Europe, Then and Now	7	(20)
PART I: THEN AND NOW: CONVERGENT COMPARISONS
Leo Lucassen
Poles and Turks in the German Ruhr Area: Similarities and Differences	27	(19)
Marie-Claude Blanc-Chaléard
Old and New Migrants in France: Italians and Algerians	46	(17)
Laure Teulières
Rural Dimensions at Stake: The Case of Italian Immigrants in Southwestern France	63	(15)
Karen Schönwälder
Assigning the State its Rightful Place? Migration, Integration and the State in Germany	78	(20)
Jochen Oltmer
'To Live as Germans Among Germans.' Immigration and Integration of 'Ethnic Germans' in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic	98	(18)
Barbara Dietz
Aussiedler in Germany: From Smooth Adaptation to Tough Integration	116	(23)
PART II: HERE AND THERE: DIVERGENT COMPARISONS
Dorota Praszalowicz
Polish Berlin: Differences and Similarities with Poles in the Ruhr Area, 1860-1920	139	(19)
Mark-Anthony Falzon
A Passage from India: Trajectories of Economic Integration in London and Mediterranean Europe	158	(19)
Laurence Brown
Afro-Caribbean Migrants in France and the United Kingdom	177	(24)
PART III: INSTITUTIONS AND INTEGRATION
Barbara Schmitter-Heisler
Trade Unions and Immigrant Incorporation: The US and Europe Compared	201	(21)
Marlou Schrover
No More Than a Keg of Beer: The Coherence of German Immigrant Communities	222	(17)
Thal Sunier
Religious Newcomers and the Nation-State: Flows and Closures	239	(23)
Dorothee Schneider
American Immigrants Look at Their Americanisation	262	(21)
PART IV: CONCLUSION
Leo Lucassen, David Feldman and Jochen Oltmer
Drawing up the Balance Sheet	283	(14)
About the Authors	297	(4)
References	301	(32)
Index	333