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Vielfalt als alltägliche Normalität: Interaktionen und Einstellungen in deutschen Städten
Dieser Beitrag untersucht die Beziehungen zwischen migrationsbezogener Vielfalt in Wohnvierteln, verschiedenen Formen sozialer Interaktionen zwischen alteingesessenen Deutschen und MigrantInnen sowie Diversitä...
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Conclusions
A concluding eighth chapter summarizes major findings and points out consequences for theories about diversity and contact.
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Introduction: Research Context and Hypotheses
The first chapter outlines major research findings and controversies and places the book in this context.
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Diversity in Germany and Its Urban Neighbourhoods
This chapter first briefly outlines the history and structure of immigration to Germany. It then explains the diversity of its cities and of city neighbourhoods. This includes discussion of immigrant concentra...
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Five Stories of Neighbourhood, Social Life, and Diversity
This chapter explores the connections between neighbourhood features, intergroup interaction and attitudes to diversity further in portraits of five selected neighbourhoods. We use both survey results as well ...
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The Immigrant Perspective
While the previous chapters focused on the impact of diversity on neighbourhood populations more generally, sometimes contrasting the non-immigrant and the immigrant parts of such populations, this chapter foc...
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The Diversity and Contact Project (DivCon)
This chapter explains the design of the Diversity and Contact study and the methods used. We explain how the 50 neighbourhoods were selected and provide details about the panel survey, the area explorations an...
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Interactions Across Boundaries in More and Less Diverse Contexts
This chapter turns to core results of the project. We outline the social interactions between those without and those with migration background. Here we present results for three different interactions: contac...
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Attitudes Towards Immigration-Related Diversity
This chapter we investigate perceptions of diversity and attitudes to others with data from our survey, specifically by way of the three-wave panel data. These data allow a more convincing analysis of causal m...
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Germany: Reluctant Steps Towards a System of Selective Immigration
Fachkräftemangel, the shortage of skilled labour, is a much debated issue in Germany. Nevertheless, resistance to any large-scale liberalization of immigration remains strong. The chapter discusses why this is...
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Ethnizität in der Zuwanderungsgesellschaft Deutschland
Die deutsche Gesellschaft ist in den letzten Jahrzehnten zunehmend heterogener geworden – auch als Konsequenz von Migrationsbewegungen. Diese Migrationsbewegungen, in die fast ein Fünftel der Bevölkerung direk...
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„Fairer, faster and firmer“: Einwanderungs- und Flüchtlingspolitik in Großbritannien
Nach 18 Jahren kam 1997 wieder eine von der Labour Party gestellte Regierung ins Amt. Im Wahlprogramm hatte Labour keine großen Versprechungen hinsichtlich der Flüchtlingspolitik und seiner Haltung gegenüber d...
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Minority Rights at Home and Abroad: the German Debate
Germany is a champion of minority rights. This has been especially so since the break-up of the socialist regimes in Eastern and Central Europe has provided new opportunities for Germany to push for an improve...
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Introduction
The relationship between German speakers and German states, on the one hand, and their non-German counterparts in Central and Eastern Europe, on the other, has been a fundamental feature of European history. I...
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‘Persons persecuted on political grounds shall enjoy the right of asylum — but not in our country’: asylum policy and debates about refugees in the Federal Republic of Germany
‘There is the so-called “right of asylum” but it is much more a right on the part of the Government to grant asylum than a right on the part of the alien to have it.’ This is how David Renton explained the pos...
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Invited but Unwanted? Migrants from the East in Germany, 1890–1990
Over the centuries, thousands of Germans have migrated from the territories between the rivers Rhine and Elbe to regions further east. This migration has been a focus not only of historiographical but also of ...
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Schutz ethnischer Minderheiten
„Der Staat achtet die Identität der ethnischen, kulturellen und sprachlichen Minderheiten“: so lautete Artikel 20b der dem Bundestag im Oktober 1993 von der Gemeinsamen Verfassungskommission (im folgenden GVK)...
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Babeuf, François Noel
B. war Zeitgenosse der Französischen Revolution, seine Auffassungen aber weisen über diese hinaus. Indem er den ersten Versuch unternahm, eine kommunistische Utopie nicht nur zu entwerfen, sondern sie auch pol...
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In seiner Heimatstadt hielt man ihn wohl für eine Art Original. »Die prägnantesten Äußerungen seines gelegentlichen Witzes«, heißt es, »waren zu Dutzenden in Umlauf«. Ohne Unterschied des Standes oder des Fass...