Description
Book Synopsis The United States is an immigrant country. Germany is not. This volume shatters this widely held myth and reveals the remarkable similarities (as well as the differences) between the two countries. Essays by leading German and American historians and demographers describe how these two countries have become to have the largest number of immigrants among advanced industrial countries, how their conceptions of citizenship and nationality differ, and how their ethnic compositions are likely to be transformed in the next century as a consequence ofmigration, fertility trends, citizenship and naturalization laws, and public attitudes.
Trade Review "... useful and readable summaries of research completed in the last two decades." · Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Table of Contents Chapter 1. From Emigration to Immigration: the German Experience in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
K. Bade
Chapter 2. An Immigration Country of Assimilative Pluralism: Immigrant Reception and Absorption in American History
R. Ueda
Chapter 3. Changing Patterns of German Immigration, 1945-1994
R. Münz and R. Ulrich
Chapter 4. The Changing Demography of U.S. Immigration Flows: Patterns, Projections, and Contexts
F. D. Bean, R. G. Cushing and C. W. Haynes
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index
