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Migration and Interethnic Relations in Western Europe,
1945 to the Present Day

Course Fall Semester 2001/2002 PH. Dr. Karen Schönwälder
I. Migration in Europe: major trends and issues
- King, Russell, From guestworkers to immigrants, in: David Pinder (ed.), The New Europe: economy, society and environment, Chichester, 1998, pp. 263-279 King, Russell, Post oil-crisis, post-Communism: new geographies of international migration, in: ibid., pp. 281-304
II. The aftermath of the war: ‚Displaced Persons'
- Brenner, Michael, After the Holocaust: Rebuilding Jewish lives in postwar Germany, Princeton, 1997, ca. pp. 19-46 [I did not have access to the English edition, it should be chapters I.1 and 2, from KZ to DP-camp and Culture]; text 2: Julius Spokojny
III. The aftermath of the war: ethnic German refugees and expellees
= Schulze, Rainer, Growing discontent: Relations between native and refugee populations in a rural district in Western Germany after the Second World War, in: Robert G. Moeller (ed.), West Germany under construction: politics, society, and culture in the Adenauer era, Ann Arbor, MI, 1997, pp. 53-72 [reprinted from: German History, vol. 7, 1989, pp. 332-349
IV. Immigration to Britain
- Playing the race card', BBC 1999 (Video)
- Documents 354 (Cabinet memorandum of 18 May 1950), 355 (Cabinet Conclusions of 19 June 1950), 359 (Cabinet Memorandum of 12 Feb. 1951), in: The Labour Government and the end of Empire 1945-1951, ed. by Ronald Hyam, = British documents on the end of Empire, Series A, vol. 2, part IV: Race relations and the Commonwealth, London, 1992 [ca. 14-15 pp.] [for background information see: Spencer; Dean; Layton-Henry, ch. 2]
- Layton-Henry, Zig, Britain: the would-be zero-immigration country, in: Cornelius, Wayne A./Philip L. Martin/James F. Hollifield (eds), Controlling immigration: a global perspective, Stanford 1994, pp. 273-295
V. Labour migration to West Germany and German migration policy
- Thr?nhardt, Dietrich, Germany: an undeclared immigration country, in: New Community, vol. 21, 1995, pp.
- Herbert, Ulrich/Karin Hunn, Guest workers and policy on guest workers in the Federal Republic: from the beginning of recruitment in 1955 until its halt in 1973, in: Hanna Schissler (ed.), The miracle years: a cultural history of West Germany, 1949-1968, Princeton, 2000, pp. 187- [not yet in the library, will hopefully be bought, if not, the text will be replaced with Esser, Hartmut/Hermann Korte, Federal Republic of Germany, in: Hammar, European immigration policy, pp. 165-205]
- Dreyer, Heinrich M., Immigration of foreign workers into the Federal Republic of Germany, in: International Labour Review, vol. 84, 1961, pp. 1-25
- Katzenstein, Policy and politics in West Germany. The growth of a semisovereign state, Philadelphia, 1987, chapter 5, pp. 209-235 Documents on migration policy in the 1970s and 1980s, pp. 237-253
VI. The Netherlands
- Entzinger, Han B., The Netherlands, in: Tomas Hammar (ed.), European immigration policy, Cambridge, 1985, pp. 50-88
VII. France
- Verbunt, Gilles, France, in: Tomas Hammar (ed.), European immigration policy, Cambridge, 1985, pp. 127-164
VIII. General Debate
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Castles, Stephen, How nation-states respond to immigration and ethnic diversity, in: New Community, 21. Jg., 1995, S. 293-308
VIII. Emigration and Return: the Countries of Origin
- Cavaco, Carminda, A place in the sun: return migration and rural change in Portugal, in: Russell King (ed.), Mass migrations in Europe: the lagacy and the future, London: Belhaven, 1993, pp. 174-191
IX. Refugees and Asylum in Europe
- Koser, Khalid, Recent asylum migration in Europe: patterns and processes of change, in: New Community, vol. 22, 1996, pp. 151-158 Sch?nw?lder, Karen, 'Persons persecuted on political grounds shall enjoy the right of asylum - but not in our country': asylum policy and debates about refugees in the Federal Republic of Germany, in: Carl Levy und Alice Bloch (eds), Refugees, citizenship and social policy in Europe, London, 1999, pp. 76-90 [not in the library, will be provided] Selm-Thorburn, Joanne van, Asylum in the Amsterdam Treaty: a harmonious future? in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 24, 1998, pp. 627-638
X. Migrants and Minorities in West European Societies: Discrimination - Identities - Integration
- Gitmez, Ali/Czarina Wilpert, A micro-society or an ethnic community? Social organization and ethnicity amongst Turkish migrants in Berlin, in: John Rex/Daniele Joly (eds), Immigrant associations in Europe, Aldershot/Brookfield, 1987, pp. 86-125
- Goodman, Charity, A day in the life of a single Spanish woman in West Germany, in: Hans C. and Judith-Maria M. Buechler (eds) Migrants in Europe, Westport, Connecticut, 1987, pp. 207-220
- Seifert, Wolfgang, Occupational and social integration of immigrant groups in Germany, in: New Community, vol. 22, 1996, pp. 417ff.
- Jewish life in western Europe [text to be selected from:] Lappin, Elena (ed.), Jewish voices, German words. Growing up in postwar Germany and Austria, North Haven: Catbird Press 1994 Gilman, Sander L., Jews in today's German culture, Bloomington, 1995, pp. 17-39
XI. Race and racism, the extreme right
- Miles, Robert, Racism, London, 1989, pp. 69-87
- Betz, Hans-Georg, The new politics of resentment: radical right-wing populist parties in Western Europe, in: Comparative Politics, vol. 25, 1993, pp. 413-428
XII. Multiculturalism: the debate
- Roy Jenkins, Speech on 23 May 1966 to a meeting of the National Committee for Commonwealth Immigrants (Essays and speeches by Roy Jenkins, ed. by Anthony Lester, London, 1967) Enoch Powell, speech on 20 April 1968 in Birmingham, in: Enoch Powell, Freedom and reality, London, 1969, pp. 213-219 [I shall bring copies of Jenkins' speech] Try to read relevant chapters in general textbooks on Britain in the 1960s; you could also read pp. 77-83 in: Zig Layton-Henry, The politics of immigration; or: Shepherd, Enoch Powell.
- Lukes, Steven, Five fables about human rights, in: Stephen Shute/Susan Hurley (eds), On human rights (The Oxford Amnesty Lecutres, 1993), New York, 1993, pp. 19-40
XIII. Citizenship
- Cinar, Dilek, From aliens to citizens. A comparative analysis of rules of transition, in: Baub?ck, Rainer (ed.), From aliens to citizens. Redefining the status of immigrants in Europe, Aldershot, 1994, pp. 49-72
- Withol de Wenden, Cath?rine, Citizenship and nationality in France, in: ibid., pp. 85-93
- Brubaker, Rogers, Immigration, citizenship, and the nation-state in France and Germany, in: Shafir, Gershon (ed.), The citizenship debates: a reader, Minneapolis/London, 1998, pp. 167-188 (reprinted from: International Sociology 5, 1990)
XV. Concluding Debate
 

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