The Unchosen Ones: Diaspora, Nation, and Migration in Israel and Germany (German Jewish Cultures) - Softcover

Panagiotidis, Jannis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 025304362X ISBN 13: 9780253043627

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Since the refugee crisis of 2015, the topic of migration has moved to the center of global political debates. Despite the frequently invoked notion that current developments are without historical precedent, migration has been a constant feature of contemporary history, particularly in Europe. Jannis Panagiotidis considers a particular type of migration, co-ethnic migration, where migrants seek admission to a country based on their purported ethnicity or nationality being the same as the country of destination. Panagiotidis looks at immigration from Germany to Israel in three individual cases where migrants were not allowed to enter the country. The rejections confound notions of an "open door" or "return to the homeland" and present contrasting ideas of descent, culture, blood, and race. Panagiotidis shows that migration is never a simple matter of moving from place to place. Questions of historical origins, immigrant selection and screening, and national belonging are deeply ambiguous and complicate migration even in nations that are purported to be ethnically homogenous.

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Review:

An extraordinarily important contribution to scholarship that illuminates some of the key issues of twentieth-century citizenship, nationalism, and transnational history.

Author: Jan Plamper, author of The New We. Why Migration Is Not a Problem: A Different History of the Germans (in German)

From the Author:

Jannis Panagiotidis is Junior Professor of Migration and Integration of Russian Germans at the Osnabrück University Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies. He is editor (with Victor Dönninghaus and Hans-Christian Petersen) of "Jenseits der Volksgruppe": Neue Perspektiven auf die Russlanddeutschen zwischen Russland, Deutschland und Amerika.

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 025304362X
• ISBN 13: 9780253043627
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 380