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Title

Imagined homes : Soviet German immigrants in two cities / Hans Werner.

Author

Werner, Hans, 1952-

Publication

Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Description

xi, 297 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

"Imagined Homes examines two migrations of similar groups of ethnic Germans from the Soviet Union during the Cold War period. One group came to Canada in the late 1940s and early, 1950s, the other went to West Germany in the early 1970s. Each group's process of integration into new urban environments was influenced by their different expectations. Those who came to Winnipeg, Canada, assumed they would be adapting to a foreign society and prepared to enter a new language and culture. By contrast, the immigrants to Bielefeld, Germany, believed they were "going home'' and expected their German heritage would ease assimilation." "As Hans Werner shows in a cross-cultural comparative framework, the ways in which the two receiving societies perceived immigrants, and the degree to which secularization and the sexual and media revolutions influenced these perceptions, were of critical importance in the immigrant experience."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Studies in immigration and culture ; 1

Uniform Title

Studies in immigration and culture ; 1.

Subject

• Russian Germans > Winnipeg > History
• Russian Germans > Bielefeld > History
• Russian Germans > Cultural assimilation > Winnipeg
• Russian Germans > Cultural assimilation > Bielefeld
• Immigrants > Cultural assimilation > Cross-cultural studies
• Social integration > Case studies
• Allemands > Winnipeg > Histoire
• Allemands Russie > Bielefeld > Histoire
• Allemands Russie > Acculturation > Winnipeg
• Allemands Russie > Acculturation > Bielefeld
• Immigrants > Acculturation > Études transculturelles
• Intégration sociale > Cas, Études de

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Pt. 1. The Setting -- Ch. 1. One People -- Ch. 2. The Receiving City -- Ch. 3. The Value of Immigrants -- Pt. 2. Putting Down Roots -- Ch. 4. Self-Reliance in Winnipeg -- Ch. 5. Bielefeld: Settling in the Welfare State -- Pt. 3. Reproducing the Community -- Ch. 6. Family Strategies -- Ch. 7. Faith Worlds -- Ch. 8. The Linguistic Paradox -- Pt. 4. Participation -- Ch. 9. Membership.

ISBN

• 9780887557019
• 0887557015

LCCN

40015165655

OCLC

• 166321239
• ocn166321239
• SCSB-5393828

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries