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Title:

History, memory and migration : perceptions of the past and the politics of incorporation / edited by J. Olaf Kleist, Irial Glynn.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

xiv, 251 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Immigrants--Cultural assimilation.
Collective memory.
Nationalism.
Cultural pluralism.
Ethnic groups.
Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Other Authors:

Kleist, J. Olaf, 1975-
Glynn, Irial, 1979-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

12. History, memory and migration: comparisons, challenges and outlooks / Irial Glynn and J. Olaf Kleist. Part I. Migrant Memories: 2. Cultures of history: the new left, South Asians, and historical memory in post-war England / Kevin Myers; 3. 'I am also a foreigner, but with me it's different': Polish displaced persons, war memory and ethnification in Belgium / Machteld Venken; 4. Using history to relate: how teenagers in Germany use history to orient between nationalities / Josefine Raasch -- Part II. Memories in Diverse Societies: 5. Caught between two worlds: the Europeans of Algeria in France after 1962 / Mich©·le Baussant; 6. Remembering Egypt: Evangelicals, conservatism and immigration in America / Hans Leaman; 7. Past migrations, contemporary representations and complex multicultures in London / Mary J. Hickman; 8. African asylum seekers and the changing politics of memory in Israel / Moriel Ram and Haim Yacobi -- Part III. Migration Memories and the State: 9. Famine commemorations and asylum debates in Ireland conflated / Irial Glynn; 10. Migrant incorporation and political memories: transformations of civic and communal belongings in Australia since 1949 / J. Olaf Kleist; 11. Songs for the nation: migrant pasts and global futures in Singapore / Kelvin E.Y. Low -- 12. History, memory and migration: comparisons, challenges and outlooks / Irial Glynn and J. Olaf Kleist.

Series:

Palgrave Macmillan memory studies.

ISBN:

0230293387
9780230293380

OCLC:

(OCoLC)764357563

LCCN:

2012011156

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)