Germans or Foreigners?: Attitudes Toward Ethnic Minorities in Post-Reunification Germany (Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series)
Contributors: Richard Alba (Editor); Peter Schmidt (Editor); Martina Wasmer (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: January 3, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781403963789
Subjects: Ethnic studies; European studies; Public Policy - Social Policy; Judaism - General; Archaeology / Anthropology; Political Science; Politics/International Relations; Germany; Marginality, Social; Anthropology - Cultural; Religion / Judaism / General; Social conditions; Ethnic relations; Minorities
First sentence: "Auslander" and "Auslanderin" (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).