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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.
“The achievement of the book and what makes it different to many other works tackling the ‘refugee crisis’ is its focus on the ambivalence of direction… It thereby moves the discussion away from the reductionist representations of the ‘refugee crisis’ commonly promoted in public discourse, toward acknowledgement of the complexity of the topic. This deconstruction effort also allows for an informed and qualified exploration of current and future avenues for change.” • Anthropology Matters
“The volume achieves its coherence through numerous cross-references of the articles, comparison of competing interpretations, as well as the outstanding introduction and conclusion…The volume impresses through its topicality, its throughout intense discussion of current scholarship, its interdisciplinary approach, and the breadth of the targeted readership. It offers an excellent introduction to this topic for the English-language readers.” • German Studies Review
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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 Karakayalı
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