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The German WallNeither Eastern nor Welcome: The Confused Lives of Berlin’s Balkan Migrants, 1950–2000

The German Wall: Neither Eastern nor Welcome: The Confused Lives of Berlin’s Balkan Migrants,... [Throughout this volume, Berlin’s modern history is associated with division. Often lost in this history are the contributions that hundreds of thousands of migrants and “postmigrants” made in sustaining these divisions. By the time Social Democrat Klaus Wowereit became mayor in 2001, for instance, the city government’s long history of policies that put Berlin at the forefront of expanding a role for immigrants in the larger society had introduced patterns of social, cultural, and economic exchange that affected the transformations taking place since the fall of the Wall a decade earlier. A major contributor to this spirit was the commissioner for foreigners, Günter Piening, who after 2003 hoped to establish a Federal-State Council for Integration and Migration. Outsiders have read these initiatives as an admirable continuation of Berlin’s long history of integrating Europe’s Eastern immigrants.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The German WallNeither Eastern nor Welcome: The Confused Lives of Berlin’s Balkan Migrants, 1950–2000

Part of the Studies in European Culture and History Book Series
Editors: Silberman, Marc
Blumi, Isa
The German Wall — Oct 19, 2015
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2011
ISBN
978-1-349-29431-2
Pages
145 –164
DOI
10.1057/9780230118577_8
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Abstract

[Throughout this volume, Berlin’s modern history is associated with division. Often lost in this history are the contributions that hundreds of thousands of migrants and “postmigrants” made in sustaining these divisions. By the time Social Democrat Klaus Wowereit became mayor in 2001, for instance, the city government’s long history of policies that put Berlin at the forefront of expanding a role for immigrants in the larger society had introduced patterns of social, cultural, and economic exchange that affected the transformations taking place since the fall of the Wall a decade earlier. A major contributor to this spirit was the commissioner for foreigners, Günter Piening, who after 2003 hoped to establish a Federal-State Council for Integration and Migration. Outsiders have read these initiatives as an admirable continuation of Berlin’s long history of integrating Europe’s Eastern immigrants.]

Published: Oct 19, 2015

Keywords: Immigrant Child; Immigrant Community; City Government; Immigrant Youth; German City

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