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Abstract: The present research examines discordant acculturation attitudes of host society members and immigrants as an antecedent to intergroup threat. Based on integrated threat theory and the concordance model of acculturation, we posited that discordance on culture maintenance and on desire for contact would predict intergroup threat beyond the influence of other antecedents of threat, such as in-group identification, knowledge, and negative contact. A study with 202 German host society members and 151 Turkish and Italian immigrants was conducted. In line with our assumptions, path analyses revealed that culture discordance and contact discordance contribute independently to the prediction of realistic threat, symbolic threat, and intergroup anxiety for host society members and immigrants. Moreover, differences in threat between cultures were mediated by the discordance in acculturation attitudes. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

In this paper I examine the ways in which politicians, media, and native residents formulate assimilation discourses—that is, expectations for immigrants to adapt to prevailing norms and cultures—and the effects that such discourses have on social relations in immigrant-receiving societies. Archival and ethnographic research in Germany illustrates that assimilation discourses are central in the dialectical process of identity construction in which native-born Germans and immigrants from Turkey construct their respective 'other', and thereby themselves. I pay particular attention to the effects of assimilation discourses in negotiations over belonging and culture at multiple scales in Germany—from the national to the neighborhood level. Space figures prominently in these negotiations, as the spaces that immigrants occupy and create often become the focus of debates about difference, otherness, and the unassimilability of migrants in Germany. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents an analysis of the cultural ideas about Germany in "Mein deutsches Dschungelbuch," by Wladimir Kaminer. The presence of Germany as a multicultural state is portrayed in the work by focusing on the experiences of immigrants. Wladimir Kaminer travelled throughout Germany and assimilated the experiences of people while composing the present work. He makes humorous reflections in this work which keeps the reader interested and introduces new concepts about Germany.

The article discusses the issue of work-related immigration in Germany and the immigration trends in entire Europe. In the period 1955-1973, Italy had been the protagonist of immigration of the labor force in Germany. Countries such as Italy, Spain and Greece became the countries of immigration and even discovered a re-entry of the immigrated. Meanwhile in Germany, the discussion on the nexus between immigration and the operational unity had just been initiated as a pivot of a model of integration. From 1973 the German authorities followed a double strategy of responding to the needs of a politics of integration of the immigrants already present in the country from many years and actualized a politics of activating the return process.

Focuses on the politics of identity in Germany. Contentions to the notion that Germany is not a country of immigration; Introduction of new laws for immigration, integration and citizenship; Credibility to accusations that the government is jeopardizing the cultural identity of Germans; Emphasis on the country's predominant culture which was characterized by the notion of the clash of civilizations and the incompatibility of different cultures.

Contemporary German anti-Americanism is not a continuation of earlier anticapitalist, antimodern, and often anti-Semitic anti-Americanism. Rather, since the late 1960s a political anti-Americanism, which accepts capitalism and the extensive Americanization of German society, has emerged. It is a response to specific American foreign policies, but its roots lie in the uneven Americanization of twentieth-century Germany. Anti-Americanism has been fostered by Germany's nonliberal variety of capitalism, by its more egalitarian social policies, by its greater secularism, by its more influential environmental movements, and by memories of World War II. Political anti-Americanism is likely to last beyond the current Iraq War crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Explores the political, historical and psychological background of contemporary German immigration. Influence of the Nazi genocide and other crimes on perception of national identity; Debates around the new immigration law; Globalization concerns of the issue.

Focuses on the assimilation of Jews in the German society. Consequences of Nazi anti-Semitism; Origin of modern anti-Semitism; Positions held by Jewish Germans in society; Link between the extraordinary success of German-Jewish assimilation and its catastrophic finale; Rejection of the Jewish identity by Marxists of Jewish descent.

Despite their structural similarities the two countries have developed contrasting traditions about immigration: a broad consensus about pluralistic integration in the Netherlands, and bitter party conflicts spoiling the atmosphere in Germany. Regarding policy outcomes, however, we find that immigrants are less disadvantaged in Germany - a fact that has been much discussed in the Netherlands, bringing about a new policy of active integration. We conclude that integration processes can be very specific and that multicultural programmes can carry powerful messages of exclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigates whether the life circumstances of immigrants and natives in Germany have converged in recent decades. To answer this question adequately, the fact that Germany experienced demographic change and educational expansion at the same time has to be taken into account. On the theoretical side, the connection of demographic variables, education, and a basic assimilation argument is derived from an investment and production view of social behaviour. On the empirical side, a method is proposed that combines the multivariate regression approach with common measures of segregation. This technique allows an opportune and convenient assessment of assimilation trends controlling for relevant structural variables. An analysis of scientific use files of population censuses in1970, 1989, and 1996 indicates that immigrants and Germans clearly converged net of the structural changes, at least over generations. Demographic change plays an ambiguous role within this process. Educational expansion, however, has led to a widening educational gap resulting in barriers to further structural assimilation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article focuses on the relations between Danes and Germans in German Nordmark during the period 1890-1933. The purpose of this discussion is to serve as a case study for analyzing two competing models of liberal integration. These models are assimilationist and multiculturalist. It argues, contrary to claims in Europe regarding intolerance and impracticality of an assimilationist model, that the application of multiculturalist models are problematic. It also presents a historical perspective of German and Danes relations in Nordmark.

Looks at the impact of the American culture on west Germany. Definition of Americanization; Historical background of the war in Europe in 1945; Effects of the U.S. leadership on Germany's economy after World War II.

This article argues that the massive differentialist turn of the last third of the twentieth century may have reached its peak, and that one can discern signs of a modest "return of assimilation". The article presents evidence of this from the domain of public discourse in France, public policy in Germany, and scholarly research in the US. Yet what has "returned" is not the old, analytically discredited and politically disreputable "assimilationist" understanding of assimilation, but a more analytically complex and normatively defensible understanding. The article concludes by specifying the ways in which the concept of assimilation has been transformed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Highlights the differences in ethnic disadvantages of foreigners in Germany and immigrants in Canada within labor markets. Structure of educational institutions; Ethnic assimilation in Germany; Differences in national policies of citizenship, equity, and culture.

The article discusses the issue of integrating immigrants into German society. The author questions whether in an increasingly globalized economy, radical economic change can be decoupled from cultural change. Structural economic change has made Germany a magnet for low qualification immigrants who make up a large percentage of the unemployed. The author proposes future immigration based on economic and social needs of the host country and presents many immigrant housing recommendations.

Examines the assimilation of Jews in modern Germany and the literary works of Peter Gay. Gay's explanation on the ease of Jewish assimilation in anti-Semitic Central Europe; Impact of anti-Semitism on German Jews; Reasons for maintaining the limitations of Jewish assimilation.

The article discusses how the assimilationist elites have responded to the evolution of Jewish anti-Zionism in France, Germany, Great Britain and U.S. The battle between Zionists and assimilationists in Western and Central European Jewry has brought a great impact in the history of Jewish self-definition as a group. The battle has also opened the opportunity for liberty, equality and economics in France. The development of Diaspora Judaism in the U.S., and the reinforcement of Jewish emancipation in Great Britain are also discussed.

The article offers information on the process of assimilation relative to the changes it called forth within the internal structure of the Jewish community in Germany, also in connection to institutions devoted to poor relief. It also examines the network of social institutions established by the Jewish minority in Germany during the Wilheminian period and through the early Weimar Republic. Moreover, it discusses examples of the Jewish system of relief for the poor in Germany and the closed and half-closed welfare institutions. It examines the role of the institutions set up for the poor Jews, and the network of other institutions established within the Jewish community.

The article focuses on Max A. Bodenheimer, an activist and chief advocate of the pro-German policy for the Zionist movement. Bodenheimer was a native German Jew and had worked as the president of the Zionistische Vereinigung für Deutschland, national organization of German Zionists. Some tensions and conflicts were present in the World Zionist Organization and German Jewry during the starting phase of World War I. Bodenheimer and other Zionists worked to promote cooperation between Zionists and other groups which opposed assimilation and antisemitism in Germany.

The article presents an overview of a study which attempts to formulate tentative hypotheses relating to structural integration, acculturation and ethnic identity. The study is an outgrowth of a study of national groups and intergroup relations in North Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, wherein the researchers presented a theoretical framework, which satisfied the observations and formed the basis for the suppositions about the future structure of the German minority and its status in Denmark's society. The authors of the research contend that comparative analyses of ethnic minorities, due to the different social contexts of the groups, can be carried out only by employing a mainly structural approach and external concepts.

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This article describes the impact of cultural conflict on deviance and crime in Germany. The reception of the concept of culture conflict can be traced back to the mid-sixties when migrant workers became a subject of concern in German criminology and in social sciences at large. Problems of assimilation and acculturation, although displayed by "guest-workers" from the very beginning, were not considered to fit within the concept of culture conflict as it was developed in North-American minority research. Concepts of partial and temporary acculturation prevailed, stressing the importance of accounting for rather specific goal attainment patterns of foreign minorities. The debate in German criminology on the potential of cultural and sub-cultural concepts for the explanation of crime has centered around the direct impact of cultural conflicts on deviance and crime produced by differing value and norm systems as well as the pressure exerted by problems of coping with new demands generated by the values and norms of the host society.

The article discusses the history and statutory provisions of legislation in Germany to combat discrimination against ethnic groups, whether they consist of guest workers, refugees, or immigrants. U.S. Affirmative Action is dismissed as strengthening the notion of an individual as a representative of an ethnic group. Policy problems of reducing ethnic discrimination are examined.

This article discusses the everyday discrimination of foreign women in Germany. The author presents the result of a survey of female immigrants in Frankfurt am Main. The author writes that the living situation of foreign women has not been given enough attention within the sociological community in Germany. The author also studies the impact that German reunification had on these women.

This article discusses whether work really occupies the integration and organizational principles. The author presents a structural analysis of unemployment and the historical and philosophical debates concerning work. The social-cultural potential of work and the integration into live world situations are also defined.

This article discusses the topic of aging immigrants in Germany. Many of those who are reaching retirement age are from the postwar guest worker programs. Many of them wish to remain in the country their children have grown up in, as their native countries are foreign to them. Other concerns include the fact that many of these immigrants have worse health than Germans of the same age; it is financially impossible for many older immigrants to return to their native countries; and many are simply used to the living standards in Germany.

The article discusses the problems of cultural assimilation of roughly eight million immigrants of German cultural background in Western Germany. The problem started because of an agreement for transferring Germans from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Austria. The former nationals of the German Reich mainly from east of the Oder-Neisse line, ethnic Germans from Czechoslovakia and the 'Swabians' from south-east Europe--represent about 95% of the German refugee population in Western Germany. In spite of the diversity of their cultural and social background, their occupational structure and their historical traditions, in their relationships with the indigenous population they are one solid group. A feeling of solidarity between immigrants belonging to different nations were seen in the refugee camps. The causes for this were their destitution, the unfavorable housing conditions, less employment opportunities and unwelcoming behavior by the natives. The refugee feels that he is treated by the new community as a second class citizen and the hope to return to their homeland makes him resist the cultural assimilation in the new place.

The article examines the influence of sudden oppression on a racial minority. In the article, the author focuses the discussion around the German Jewry group. While other groups have grown up as racial minorities and are thus more or less adjusted to their situation, this group has been more or less integrated and assimilated, and has later become the object of sudden oppression. German Jewry can be regarded as a single group since 1933 in so far as its members were subjected to similar experiences after the onset of discrimination. The members of this group were mostly recruited from families, which had been assimilated for at least two or three generations. Their attitude toward the other Jewish groups was uninterested or neutral. They often exaggerated or overemphasized their patriotism and loyalty to Germany, both traits probably indicating a certain remainder of insecurity concerning their position and a desire to stress the fact of their assimilation. The first principal effect of the beginning of discrimination of the group was economic oppression.

The article reports on a conference on the history of Jews in Westphalia, Germany, held in Dorsten, Germany, from March 27-28, 2012. Topics of discussion included the representation of minorities in local history museums, the assimilation of rural Jews in 19th- and 20th-century Germany, and the experience of Jewish refugees who had fled Nazi persecution upon their return to Germany after 1945.

The article offers observations based on a preceding article in this issue by Georg Auernheimer on intercultural education (IP) in Germany. The author notes that Germany has no tradition of intercultural exchange or multilingualism and a history of segregation, expulsion, or destruction of minority groups. Comparisons with assimilation practices of immigrant countries like the U.S. and Great Britain are said to be misguided.

The article offers observations based on a preceding article in this issue by Georg Auernheimer on intercultural education in Germany. The author claims that the society assimilating the immigrant insists on adherence to its constitution and laws, national language, general educational system, and learning to be adaptive to the majority, and should not encourage the isolation of the immigrant subculture.

Comments on the use of Jews and Germans formula in Dennis Klein's review of Peter Gay's 'Freud, Jews, and Other Germans.' Information on the assimilation of Jews in Germany; Meaning of integration; Definition of political anti-semitism, racial anti-semitism and social anti-semitism.

The article focuses on immigration policy as determined by the Federal Government of Germany. In particular, its policy encompasses the integration of resettlers coming to Germany as well as assistance for Germans living in resettlement areas. The article discusses issues such as maintaining a national identity and cooperation between Germany and Russia.

The loving and thorough restoration of Dresden's famous Frauenkirche was not just a spectacular engineering feat, but also a triumph of democracy and westernisation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study attempts to explore and compare the cognitive, affective and procedural aspects of EFL elementary textbooks in Syria and Germany. It analyses a corpus which consists of three Syrian elementary textbooks, Starters I-III, and their German counterparts, Kooky I-II. Based on the paradigmatic change from instructivism to constructivism, a descriptive-analytical approach is used to examine the content-material in terms of teacher vs. pupil orientation, product vs. process orientation, virtuality vs. authenticity, cognitive learning vs. learning by doing which represent the essential parameters of learner autonomy. Results indicate that the Syrian material focuses on the cognitive element of language learning without ignoring affective and procedural factors, whereas the German material tends to put special emphasis on affectivity and process-orientation. Culturally, the Syrian textbooks confine their view to the domestic background before opening up to British culture in book III, whereas the German textbooks are keen to introduce the British dimension right from the start. For the Syrian material, the study suggests the inclusion of pronunciation exercises and a stronger consideration of learner autonomy. For the German material, close attention should be paid to a well-balanced relationship between the three parameters mentioned above. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]