Migration to, from, and within German-speaking lands has been a dynamic force in Central European history for centuries. Exemplifying some of the most exciting recent research on historical mobility, the essays collected here reconstruct the experiences of vagrants, laborers, religious exiles, refugees, and other migrants during the last five hundred years of German history. With diverse contributions ranging from early modern martyrdom to post-Cold War commemoration efforts, this volume identifies revealing commonalities shared by different eras while also placing the German case within the broader contexts of European and global migration.

Jared Poley is Professor of History at Georgia State University. He is the author of Decolonization in Germany: Weimar Narratives of Colonial Loss and Foreign Occupation (2005) and The Devil's Riches: A Modern History of Greed (2016). He is a co-editor of the Spektrum collections Conversion and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Germany (2012) and Kinship, Community, and Self (2014).

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Preface

Introduction: Migration in the German Lands: An Introduction
Alexander Schunka

Chapter 1. Martyrdom and its Discontents: The Martyr as a Motif of Migration in Early Modern Europe
Andrew McKenzie-McHarg

Chapter 2. Penal Migration in Early Modern Germany
Jason Coy

Chapter 3. No Return? From Temporary Exile to Permanent Immigration in the Early Modern Era
Alexander Schunka

Chapter 4. Inventing Immigrant Traditions in Eighteenth-Century Germany: The Huguenots in Context
Ulrich Niggemann

Chapter 5. Between Economic Interest and Nationalism: The Policy Regarding Polish Seasonal Rural Workers in the German Empire before 1914
Roland Gehrke

Chapter 6. Elite Migration to Germany: The Anglo-American Colony in Dresden before World War I
Nadine Zimmerli

Chapter 7. Immigration in Weimar Germany
Jochen Oltmer

Chapter 8. Coming Home? The Return of Italian and German Jews to their Countries of Origin after the Holocaust
Anna Koch

Chapter 9. On the Move and Putting Down Roots: Transnationalism and Integration among Yugoslav Guest Workers in West Germany
Christopher A. Molnar

Chapter 10. Sifting Germans from Yugoslavs: Co-Ethnic Selection, Danube Swabian Migrants, and the Contestation of Aussiedler Immigration in West Germany in the 1950s and 1960s
Jannis Panagiotidis

Chapter 11. Staging Immigration History as Urban History: A New 'lieu de mémoire'?
Bettina Severin-Barboutie

Afterword
Jared Poley

Contributors
Index