Imagined Homes

Soviet German Immigrants in Two Cities

Hans Werner author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Manitoba Press

Published:30th Nov '07

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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.

ISBN: 9780887557019

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 333g

304 pages