Program

Working Group "European Migration History" in cooperation with the Research Group on Comparison of Societies (Forschergruppe Gesellschaftsvergleich) and the Chair for Demography (Bevölkerungswissenschaft) at Humboldt-University. The workshop is financially supported by the Hertie Foundation, the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Außenstelle Berlin, the Forschergruppe Gesellschaftsvergleich and Siemens Berlin.

Check in and reimbursement
(12.00 - 2.00 pm)

I. Opening and Welcome (Rainer Ohliger/ Karen Schönwälder)
(2.00 - 2.30 pm)

II. Panels

First Session: Migratory Movements and Their Determinants
(2.30 - 4.15 pm)

Chair: Rainer Ohliger

Phil Triadafilopoulos (New School for Social Research, New York),
Reassessing the Political Consequences of Refugee Incorporation in Greece and Germany

Cătălin Turliuc (Romanian Academy, "A.D. Xenopol" Institute of History Iaşi),
Jewish Emigration from Romania 1945-1965

Hill Kulu (U. Tartu),
Postwar Immigration to Estonia in Comparative Perspective

Coffee Break
(4.15 - 5.15 pm)

Second Session: Identities and Representation I
(5.15 – 7.00 pm)

Chair: Volker Ackermann

Volodymyr Kulyk (Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev),
Political Emigration and Labor Settlement: Ukrainian Displaced Persons in Germany and Austria, 1945-1950

Angelika Eder (Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte Hamburg),
Polish Life in West Germany. A Case Study on Hamburg 1945 to 1990

Judith Fai-Podlipnik (Southeastern Louisiana U.),
Divisions Among Magyar Expatriates in Europe: An Impediment to Anti-Communist Goals 1945-1955

Dinner (Restaurant McBride, Oranienburger Str. 32)
(8.00 pm)

Breakfast
(9.15 – 10.00 am)

III. Panels

Third Session: Identities and Representation II
(10.00 – 12.00 am)

Chair: Anne v. Oswald

Pertti Ahonen (U. Sheffield),
Expulsion, Public Representation, Assimilation: On the Integration of the Expellees in West Germany, 1945-1970

Isa Blumi (New York U.),
Historical Dynamics of Albanian Identity: Shifting Borders in Exile

Andrea Klimt (U. of Massachusetts, Dartmouth),
European Spaces: Portuguese Migrants' Notions of Home and Belonging

Laure Teulières (U. Toulouse),
Memories of Migration - Migrants' Memories in France 

Lunch
(12.00 – 2.00 pm)

Fourth Session: Labor Migration and Incorporation I
(2.00 - 4.00 pm)

Chair: Hanna Schissler

Anne v. Oswald/Karen Schönwälder/Barbara Sonnenberger (Berlin/Marburg),
Labor Migration – Immigration Policy – Integration: Reinterpreting West Germany's History?

Anne Morelli (ULB Brussels),
Labor Migration to Belgium: Bilateral Agreements 1946 to 1964

Esra Erdem (Oxford U./U. of Massachusetts),
Mapping Women's Migration: A Case Study of the Economic Dimensions of Female Migration from Turkey to Germany

Umut Erel/Eleonore Kofman (Nottingham Trent U.),
Professional Female Immigration in Post-war Europe: Counteracting an Historical Amnesia

Coffee Break
(4.00 – 4.30 pm)

IV. Panel Discussion: Migration History of the Future: Trends and Challenges
(4.30 pm – 6.30 pm)

Chair: N.N.

Eleonore Kofman (Nottingham Trent University): 
Gender and Migration History

Volker Ackermann (U. Düsseldorf):
Refugee History as Migration History

Klaus Manfrass (German Historical Institute Paris):
Comparative Approaches In Migration History (TBA)

Hanna Schissler (Eckert Institute Braunschweig): 
Beyond the National Narrative: Teaching World History in a Time of Global Migration

Get-together over Drinks
(7.30 - 8.30 pm)

Dinner (Restaurant La Rustica, Kleine Präsidentenstr. 4)
(8.30 pm)

Breakfast
(9.00 – 9.30 am)

V. Panels

Sixth Session: Political Responses to Migration I
(9.30 – 11.15 am)

Chair: Andrea Schmelz

Rainer Ohliger (Humboldt U. Berlin):
Making (European) Immigrants Visible: Clio as an Integrative Actor – Clio as a Political Factor?

Damir Skenderovic (NYU/U. of Fribourg), 
Discourse and Politics of Exclusion in the Swiss Immigration Society

Hallvard Tjelmeland (U. Tromso), 
Culture Clash and Cultural Encounter. How Third-World Immigrant Workers Challenged Norwegianness in the early 1970s

Brunch
(11.15 – 12.00 am)

VI. Presentation and Discussion

Project Presentation
(12.00 - 12.30 pm)

Patrick Veglian (Génériques Paris):
Archival Documentation of Immigration History: 'Les Etrangers en France' as Role Model?

VII. Panels

Seventh Session: Political Responses to Migration II
(12.30 – 2.30 pm)

Chair: Karen Schönwälder

Mathias Beer (U. Tübingen), 
"Organische Eingliederung". The Integration Concept of the West German Expellee and Refugee Administration 

Wim Willems (IMES Amsterdam),
Don’t Governments Ever Learn? Colonial Migrants and Later Refugees in the Postwar Netherlands

Optional: 
Guided tours in the afternoon: Berlin's Immigrant Neighborhoods 
(Kreuzberg/Scheunenviertel)