13173aHU
Seminar
WiSe 17/18: Migrants and Migration: Germans in North America in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Martin Lutz
Comments
In the course of the 19th century the United States became the most popular destination for German emigrants. Including later migration waves after World War I and World War II, approximately seven million crossed the Atlantic Ocean making Germans the largest ethnic group in the United States today.
The seminar has three goals. First, we will analyse migration as a process and identify structural patterns that shaped the reasons why, how and where people migrated, and how ethnic identity was constructed or transformed in the course of migration. Second, we will look at migrants as historical actors with specific motivations, goals and strategies. Questions such as who migrated and how the migratants adjusted to their new environment will be addressed. Third, the seminar will look at the wider academic discourse about mass migrations as an essential phenomemon in the history of globalization. close
The seminar has three goals. First, we will analyse migration as a process and identify structural patterns that shaped the reasons why, how and where people migrated, and how ethnic identity was constructed or transformed in the course of migration. Second, we will look at migrants as historical actors with specific motivations, goals and strategies. Questions such as who migrated and how the migratants adjusted to their new environment will be addressed. Third, the seminar will look at the wider academic discourse about mass migrations as an essential phenomemon in the history of globalization. close
Suggested reading
Moltmann, Günter, ed. Germans to America: 300 Years of Immigration, 1683 to 1983. Stuttgart: Eugen Heinz Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, 1982.
Dinnerstein, Leonard, and David M. Reimers. Ethnic Americans: A History of Immigration. 5th ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.
Portes, Alejandro and Josh DeWind, eds. Rethinking Migration: New Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives. 1st ed. New York, NY: Berghahn Books, 2007.
Ueda, Reed, ed. A Companion to American Immigration. Malden, Mass, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell; John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2011. close
Dinnerstein, Leonard, and David M. Reimers. Ethnic Americans: A History of Immigration. 5th ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.
Portes, Alejandro and Josh DeWind, eds. Rethinking Migration: New Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives. 1st ed. New York, NY: Berghahn Books, 2007.
Ueda, Reed, ed. A Companion to American Immigration. Malden, Mass, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell; John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2011. close
16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Wed, 2017-10-18 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2017-10-25 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2017-11-01 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2017-11-08 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2017-11-15 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2017-11-22 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2017-11-29 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2017-12-06 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2017-12-13 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2017-12-20 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2018-01-10 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2018-01-17 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2018-01-24 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2018-01-31 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2018-02-07 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2018-02-14 10:00 - 12:00