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The arrival in 2015 and 2016 of over one million asylum seekers and refugees in Germany had major social consequences and gave rise to extensive debates about the nature of cultural diversity and collective life. This volume examines the responses and implications of what was widely seen as the most significant and contested social change since German reunification in 1990. It combines in-depth studies based on anthropological fieldwork with analyses of the longer trajectories of migration and social change. Its original conclusions have significance not only for Germany but also for the understanding of diversity and difference more widely.
List of contents
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Making, Experiencing and Managing Difference in a Changing Germany
Jan-Jonathan Bock and Sharon Macdonald PART I: MAKING GERMANS AND NON-GERMANS Chapter 1. Language as Battleground: 'Speaking' the Nation, Lingual Citizenship and Diversity Management in Post-unification
Germany
Uli Linke Chapter 2. Diversity and Unity: Political and Conceptual Answers to Experiences of Differences and Diversities in Germany
Friedrich Heckmann Chapter 3. Jews, Muslims and the Ritual Male Circumcision Debate: Religious Diversity and Social Inclusion in Germany
Gökce Yurdakul PART II: POTENTIAL FOR CHANGE Chapter 4. Islam, Vernacular Culture and Creativity in Stuttgart
Petra Kuppinger Chapter 5. 'Neukölln Is Where I Live, It's Not Where I'm From': Children of Migrants Navigating Belonging in a Rapidly Changing
Urban Space in Berlin
Carola Tize and Ria Reis Chapter 6. The Post-migrant Paradigm
Naika Foroutan PART III: REFUGEE ENCOUNTERS Chapter 7. New Year's Eve, Sexual Violence and Moral Panics: Ruptures and Continuities in Germany's Integration Regime
Kira Kosnick Chapter 8. Solidarity with Refugees: Negotiations of Proximity and Memory
Serhat Karakayali Chapter 9. Negotiating Cultural Difference in Dresden's Pegida Movement and Berlin's Refugee Church
Jan-Jonathan Bock PART IV: NEW INITIATIVES AND DIRECTIONS Chapter 10. Interstitial Agents: Negotiating Migration and Diversity in Theatre
Jonas Tinius Chapter 11. Articulating a Noncitizen Politics: Nation-State Pity vs. Democratic Inclusion
Damani J. Partridge Chapter 12. The Refugees-Welcome Movement: A New Form of Political Action
Werner Schiffauer Conclusion: Refugee Futures and the Politics of Difference
Sharon Macdonald Index
About the author
Jan-Jonathan Bock is Programme Director of Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, United Kingdom. His publications include Austerity, Community Action and the Future of Citizenship in Europe (2018), co-edited with Shana Cohen and Christina Fuhr.
Sharon Macdonald is Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Social Anthropology at the Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität Berlin. She founded and directs the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH), as well as its major project Making Differences – Transforming Museums and Heritage in the 21st Century.
Summary
Combining in-depth anthropological studies with more long-term analyses, this volume examines the responses to and implications of the arrival in 2015 and 2016 of over one million asylum seekers and refugees in Germany - widely seen as the most major and contested social change in the country since reunification.
