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Unchosen Ones - Diaspora, Nation, and Migration in Israel and Germany

English · Paperback / Softback

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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. These rejections confound notions of an "open door" or a "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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Acknowledgments

Notes on Foreign Terms, Translation, and Transliteration

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: The Importance of the Unchosen Ones

Chapter 1: Originating Differences

Chapter 2: Free to Choose

Chapter 3: Problematic Others

Chapter 4: The Watershed Period

Chapter 5: The Soviet Exodus

Conclusion: The Rise and Demise of Co-Ethnic Immigration

Bibliography

Index



About 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.


Summary

Since the refugee crisis of 2015, the topic of migration has moved to the center of global political debates. Jannis Panagiotidis looks at immigration from Germany to Israel in three individual cases where migrants were not allowed to enter the country, showing that migration is never a simple matter of moving from place to place.

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