Key activities
Projekte
Expertendatenbank Migration
Expert
Professor Dr. Hermann Kurthen
Born 1952 in Stuttgart, Germany
1984 Dr. phil., Freie Universitaet Berlin
1991 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1997 Stony Brook University, New York
2004 Grand Valley State University, Michigan
Key activities
- Bi-/multilingualism
- Economy and job market/labour law
- Integration politics
- Migration politics nationally
- Migration research
- Migration worldwide/in Europe
- Minorities
- Non-discrimination/equal treatment/conflict resolution
- Professional/social/cultural integration
- Racism/xenophobia
Publications
- Kurthen, Hermann and Barbara Heisler (2009): "Immigrant Integration: Comparative Evidence from the United States and Germany." Ethnic and Racial Studies 32(1): 139-170.
- Kurthen, Hermann/Antonio V. Menendez-Alarcon/Stefan Immerfall (Hrsg.) (2006): Safeguarding German-American Relations in the New Century: Understanding and Accepting Mutual Differences, Lanham, Maryland, Lexington Books -Rowman & Littlefield.
- Kurthen, Hermann/Jürgen Fijalkowsk/Gert G. Wagner (Hrsg.) (1998): Immigration, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in Germany and the United States Immigrant Incorporation, in: Series: Industrial Development and the Social Fabric, Vol. 14, Part A, Greenwich, CT, JAI Press.
- Kurthen, Hermann/Jürgen Fijalkowski/Gert G. Wagner (Hrsg.) (1998): Immigration, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in Germany and the United States: Welfare Policies and Immigrants Citizenship, in: Series: Industrial Development and the Social Fabric, Vol. 14, Part B, Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
- Kurthen, Hermann/Werner Bergmann/Rainer Erb (Hrsg.) (1997): Antisemitism and Xenophobia in Germany after Unification, New York, Oxford University Press.
- Gillmeister, Helmut/Hermann Kurthen/Jürgen Fijalkowski (1989): Ausländerbeschäftigung in der Krise? Die Beschäftigungschancen und -risiken ausländischer Arbeitnehmer am Beispiel der West Berliner Industrie. Berlin, Edition Sigma Bohn.
- Kurthen, Hermann (2002): Einwandererintegration im Spiegel der U.S. Amerikanischen Forschung, in Andreas Treichler (Hrsg.): Wohlfahrtsstaat, Einwanderung und Ethnische Minderheiten, Opladen, Westdeutscher Verlag, S. 83-106.
- Kurthen, Hermann (1998): Gone with the Wind? German Language Retention in North Carolina and the U.S. in Comparative Perspective, in: Yearbook of German-American Studies, Vol. 33, S. 55-83.
Contact
Grand Valley State UniversityProfessor Dr. Hermann Kurthen
GVSU Sociology Department 1 Campus Drive
49401-9403 Allendale, Michigan
U.S.A.
Tel: 001 616 331-8720
Fax: 001 616 331-3735
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