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How does migration change a nation? Germany in Transit is the first sourcebook to illuminate the country's transition into a multiethnic society―from the arrival of the first guest workers in the mid-1950s to the most recent reforms in immigration and citizenship law. The book charts the highly contentious debates about migrant labor, human rights, multiculturalism, and globalization that have unfolded in Germany over the past fifty years―debates that resonate far beyond national borders. This cultural history in documents offers a rich archive for the comparative study of modern Germany against the backdrop of European integration, transnational migration, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Divided into eleven thematic chapters, Germany in Transit includes 200 original texts in English translation, as well as a historical introduction, chronology, glossary, bibliography, and filmography.
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Deniz Göktürk was born in Istanbul, graduated from Deutsche Schule Istanbul, studied in Konstanz/Germany, Norwich/UK, and Freie Universität Berlin, where she received her Ph.D. in 1995. She joined the German Department at Berkeley in fall 2001, after having taught at the University of Southampton/UK for six years. Her publications include a book on literary and cinematic imaginations of America in early twentieth-century German culture: Künstler, Cowboys, Ingenieure: Kultur- und mediengeschichtliche Studien zu deutschen Amerika-Texten 1912-1920 (1998) as well as seminal articles on migration, culture, and cinema. She co-edited an anthology of contemporary Turkish literature, Jedem Wort gehört ein Himmel(1991, with Zafer Senocak) and translated novels by Aras Ören and Bilge Karasu. She is co-editor of The German Cinema Book(published by the British Film Institute in 2002, co-edited with Tim Bergfelder and Erica Carter). Most recently, she published the volume Orienting Istanbul: Cultural Capital of Europe? (2010), co-edited with Levent Soysal and İpek Türeli. Göktürk has been coordinator of the Multicultural Germany Project and has organized workshops and conferences such as “Rethinking Diversity in Europe and the USA” and “Goodbye Germany? Migration, Culture, and the Nation State.” Germany in Transit. Nation and Migration, 1955-2005, a co-edited sourcebook growing out of this project, was published in 2007 by University of California Press. An updated German edition Transit Deutschland: Debatten zu Nation und Migration is forthcoming from Konstanz Univesity Press in fall 2010. She is one of the co-founders of TRANSIT, the electronic journal launched by the Berkeley German Department in September 2005. She teaches courses and graduate seminars on: “Transnational Cinemas,” “The Global Imaginary,” “German Cinema: Space, Borders, and Mobility,” “Multicultural Germany,” “Travelling Auteurs: Werner Herzog,” “Kafka and Modernism,” “Hybrid Cultures: Jews and Turks in Germany,” “German Orientalism,” “Comedy and Community,” and “Media, Spectatorship, and Place.”
