People in Transit: German Migrations in Comparative Perspective, 1820–1930

✍ Scribed by Dirk Hoerder (editor), Jvrg Nagler (editor)

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 443
• Series: Publications of the German Historical Institute
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume contains empirical studies on German in-migration, internal migration, and transatlantic emigration from the 1820s to the 1930s, placed in a comparative perspective of Polish, Swedish, and Irish migration to North America. The essays here demonstrate that the three types of migration are indeed fundamentally interrelated. Special emphasis is placed on the role of women in the process of migration.

✦ Table of Contents

frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Contributors
Introduction
1 German Emigration Research, North, South, and East
2 Colonist Traditions and Nineteenth—Century Emigration from East Elbian Prussia
3 Overseas Emigration from Mecklenburg—Strelitz
4 Emigration from Regiemngsbezirle Frankfur
5 Preserving or Transforming Role
6 Traveling Workers and the German Labor Movement
7 Migration in Duisburg, 1821—1914
8 In-Migration and Out-Migration in an Area of Heavy Industry
9 Foreign Workers in and around Bremen, 1884—1918
10 The International Marriage Market
11 Making Service Serve Themselves
12 German Domestic Servants in America, 1850—1914
l3 Acculturation of Immigrant Women in Chicago at the Turn ofthe Twentieth Century
14 Communicating the Old and the New
15 Return Migration to an Urban Center
16 Migration, Ethnicity, and Working-Class Formation
17 Changing Gender Roles and Emigration
Conclusion: Migration Past and Present — The German
Research on the German Migrations, 1820s to 1930s: A Report on the State of German Scholarship
index