New Publication: Labor Migration in the Federal Republic of Germany (Edited by Stephanie Zloch, Sabine Mecking, and Wilfried Rudloff)

Just Published: Labor Migration in the Federal Republic of Germany: Contemporary Historical Perspectives—Edited by Stephanie Zloch, Sabine Mecking, and Wilfried Rudloff

In most European countries today, there is intense debate over the interpretation and shaping of immigrant societies. By examining the individual, societal, cultural-memory, and region-specific temporal layers and trajectories of migration, this volume offers new insights that go beyond established patterns of classification and evaluation. The focus is on labor migration to the Federal Republic of Germany, which is precisely characterized as a distinct phenomenon of “medium duration” spanning the 1950s through the 1990s. The volume brings together contributions from historical migration studies, contemporary history, regional history, and the history of education, as well as public history, thereby linking strands of research and discussion that have often been treated separately until now.