Germany in Transit Nation and Migration, 1955-2005 [Paperback]

How does migration change a nation?Germany in Transitis the first sourcebook to illuminate the country's transition into a multiethnic societyfrom the arrival of the first guest workers in the mid-1950s to the most recent reforms in immigration and citizenship law. The book charts the highly contentious debates about migrant labor, human rights, multiculturalism, and globalization that have unfolded in Germany over the past fifty yearsdebates that resonate far beyond national borders.

This cultural history in documents offers a rich archive for the comparative study of modern Germany against the backdrop of European integration, transnational migration, and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Divided into eleven thematic chapters,Germany in Transitincludes 200 original texts in English translation, as well as a historical introduction, chronology, glossary, bibliography, and filmography.

Deniz G?kt?rk,Associate Professor of German, is author ofK?nstler, Cowboys, Ingenieure: Kultur- und mediengeschichtliche Studien zu deutschen Amerika-Texten 1912-1920and coeditor ofThe German Cinema Book.David Gramlingis completing his doctoral thesis on German Turkish literature and the spatial imaginary.Anton Kaes,Chancellor Professor of German and Film Studies, is author ofFrom Hitler to Heimat: The Return of History as Film, M,and coeditor ofThe Weimar Republic Sourcebook(UC Press). The editors are all affiliated with the German Department at the University of California, Berkeley.

Germany in Transitis a much-needed sourcebook that vividly represents the crucial debates about the integration of 'foreigners' in Germany. Written for all levels of readers, from school teachers and college students to general readers. Werner Sollors, author ofBeyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture

This book is first-rate: historically aclC­