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Ausländer" and "Ausländerin" (fem.), literally "out-lander" but meaning "foreigner," are words suggesting that a social chasm separates immigrants from native Germans, and they appear to sustain the dominant image of Germany in the English-language literature as the "ethnic nation" par excellence (Brubaker, 1992). During the early 1990s, the image was solidified by a rash of attacks on immigrants, many of them occurring in the so-called neue Bundesländer, the states of the east, freshly reunified with those of the west (see Koopmans, 1996; Lüdemann and Ohlemacher, 2002, 67-95). Previously unremarkable places like Hoyerswerda, Rostock, and Solingen attained notoriety far beyond Germany. Pictures of skinhead neo-Nazis parading through the streets evoked chilling memories of the 1930s. Yet the reality is far more complex. In fact, if not in self-image, Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) has become an immigration nation since the end of World War II. According to the estimates of Rainer Münz and Ralf Ulrich in chapter 2, in this volume, a sixth of the population in the mid-1990s was of foreign birth. Not all are guestworkers (Gastarbeiter), the men (and later their families) who arrived

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Author

Richard Alba, Peter Schmidt, Martina Wasmer (eds.)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781403963789

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Sociology, Judaism