Imagined Homes

Imagined Homes
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Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Total Pages : 304
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ISBN-10 : 9780887553264
ISBN-13 : 0887553265
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Download or read book Imagined Homes written by Hans Werner and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagined Homes: Soviet German Immigrants in Two Cities is a study of the social and cultural integration of two migrations of German speakers from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union to Winnipeg, Canada in the late 1940s, and Bielefeld, Germany in the 1970s. Employing a cross-national comparative framework, Hans Werner reveals that the imagined trajectory of immigrant lives influenced the process of integration into a new urban environment. Winnipeg’s migrants chose a receiving society where they knew they would again be a minority group in a foreign country, while Bielefeld’s newcomers believed they were “going home” and were unprepared for the conflict between their imagined homeland and the realities of post-war Germany. Werner also shows that differences in the way the two receiving societies perceived immigrants, and the degree to which secularization and the sexual and media revolutions influenced these perceptions in the two cities, were crucially important in the immigrant experience.


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