Migration Past, Migration Future: Germany and the United States (Migration & Refugees) [Hardcover]

"... useful and readable summaries of research completed in the last two decades." * Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

The United States is an immigrant country. Germany is not. This volume shatters this widely held myth and reveals the remarkable similarities (as well as the differences) between the two countries. Essays by leading German and American historians and demographers describe how these two countries have become to have the largest number of immigrants among advanced industrial countries, how their conceptions of citizenship and nationality differ, and how their ethnic compositions are likely to be transformed in the next century as a consequence ofmigration, fertility trends, citizenship and naturalization laws, and public attitudes.

Klaus J. Bade is the chair for modern history and directo of the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at the University of Osnabruck, FRG. He was a fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University in 1976/77; at St Antony's College, Oxford, in 1985; and at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NMIAS), Wassenaar, in 1996/97. He served as chairperson of the German Association for Historical Migration Research, editor for the series Studien zur Historischen Migrationsforschung (SHM) and co-editor for the series IMIS-Schriften. He is the author and editor of numerous books on 19th and 20th century social and economic history, on the history of colonialism and imperialism as well as on population and migration past and present. Myron Weiner is Ford International Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and former director of the MIT Center for International Studies. He is the author of and editor of numerous books on India, on political change in developing countries, and on international migration. Professor Weiner has taught at Princeton University, University of Chicago, and Harvard University and held visiting research appointments at the University of Paris, Hebrew University, Delhi University and University of Oxford. At MIT he chairs the Inter-University Committee on International Migration.