LEADER 03620cam a2200517Ii 4500001 269882 005 20190312111419.0 008 180116s2018 inuab b 001 0 eng d 035 (OCoLC)on1019603498 040 YDX |beng |erda |cYDX |dOCLCQ |dYDXIT |dOCLCF |dGSU |dLHM 019 1019644580 020 9780253037718 |qhardcover 020 0253037719 |qhardcover 020 9780253037725 |qpaperback 020 0253037727 |qpaperback 043 e-gx---e-yu--- 050 4 JV8025 |b.M65 2018 049 LHMA 100 1 Molnar, Christopher A., |eauthor. 245 10 Memory, politics, and Yugoslav migrations to postwar Germany / |cChristopher A. Molnar. 264 1 Bloomington, IN : |bIndiana University Press, |c[2018] 300 xv, 235 pages ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-225) and index. 505 0 Introduction -- Communities of victims: Croatian Émigrés and Germans in the 1950s -- History on trial: migration, political violence, and memories of World War II -- Second-class refugees: the West German-Yugoslav migration regime and the asylum problem -- Imagining Yugoslavs: from communist agents to ambassadors of peace -- The return of the nation: Bosnian refugees in the new Germany -- Epilogue. 520 During Europe's 2015 refugee crisis, more than a hundred thousand asylum seekers from the western Balkans sought refuge in Germany. This was nothing new, however; immigrants from the Balkans have streamed into West Germany in massive numbers throughout the long postwar era. Memory, politics, and Yugoslav migrations to postwar Germany tells the story of how Germans received the many thousands of Yugoslavs who migrated to Germany as political émigrés, labor migrants, asylum seekers, and war refugees from 1945 to the mid-1990s. While Yugoslavs made up the second largest immigrant group in the country, their impact has received little critical attention until now. With a particular focus on German policies and attitudes towards immigrants, Christopher Molnar argues that considerations of race played only a marginal role in German attitudes and policies towards Yugoslavs. Rather, the history of Yugoslavs in postwar Germany was most profoundly shaped by the memory of World War II and the shifting Cold War context. Molnar shows how immigration was a key way in which Germany negotiated the meaning and legacy of the war. 611 27 World War (1939-1945) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01180924 651 0 Yugoslavia |xEmigration and immigration |xHistory |y20th century. 651 0 Germany |xEmigration and immigration |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Yugoslavs |zGermany |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Immigrants |zGermany |xSocial conditions |y20th century. 650 0 Immigrants |xGovernment policy |zGermany |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Refugees |zGermany |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xRefugees |zGermany. 650 7 Emigration and immigration. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00908690 650 7 Immigrants |xGovernment policy. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00967736 650 7 Immigrants |xSocial conditions. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00967782 650 7 Refugees. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01092797 650 7 Yugoslavs. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01183838 651 7 Germany. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01210272 651 7 Yugoslavia. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01279262 648 7 1900-1999 |2fast 655 7 History. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411628 852 0 |bstacks |hJV8025 |i.M65 2018