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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- 305.80097127/43
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- 22
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Table of Contents 8
- Preface 10
- Introduction 16
- Part 1: The Setting 28
- Chapter 1: One People 30
- Chapter 2: The Receiving City 46
- Chapter 3: The Value of Immigrants 66
- Part 2: Putting Down Roots 90
- Chapter 4: Self-Reliance in Winnipeg 92
- Work 93
- A Place to Live 104
- Chapter 5: Bielefeld: Settling in the Welfare State 118
- A Place to Live 120
- Work 128
- Part 3: Reproducing the Community 150
- Chapter 6: Family Strategies 152
- The Family Before Migration 153
- Reconstructing Family 159
- Conspicuous Families in Bielefeld 165
- Chapter 7: Faith Worlds 176
- Religion Under Communism After World War II 181
- Religion Transplanted to Bielefeld 185
- Reconnecting to Church in Winnipeg 188
- Chapter 8: The Linguistic Paradox 198
- Preserving Language in Eastern Europe 200
- Language in the New World 201
- PART 4: Participation 220
- Chapter 9: Membership 222
- Citizenship and Membership 222
- Associational Life 227
- Conclusion 244
- Appendix 254
- Notes 262
- Preface 262
- Introduction 262
- Chapter 1 264
- Chapter 2 266
- Chapter 3 271
- Chapter 4 275
- Chapter 5 278
- Chapter 6 281
- Chapter 7 286
- Chapter 8 289
- Chapter 9 291
- Bibliography 296
- Archival Collections, Manuscripts & Interviews 296
- Published Sources 298
- Index 314