Germans or Foreigners? Attitudes Toward Ethnic Minorities in Post-Reunification Germany ISBN: 9780230608825 Platform/Publisher: SpringerLink / Palgrave Macmillan US Digital rights:Users: unlimited; Printing: unlimited; Download: unlimited Subjects: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection;
This book examines contemporary attitudes towards ethnic minorities in Germany. These minorities include some of immigrant origin, such as Italians, Turks, and asylum seekers, and the principal non-immigrant minority, Jews. While the findings demonstrate that intense prejudice against minorities is not widespread among Germans, many of whom in fact can be considered immigrant- and minority-friendly, a crystallization of attitudes is also evident: that is, attitudes towards immigrants are strongly correlated with anti-Semitism and with other worldview dimensions, such as positioning in the left-right political spectrum. In this sense, the fundamental question of whether immigrants and other minorities should be regarded as fellow citizens or ethnic outsiders remains relevant in the German context.
STEFAN BENDER Institut fur Arbeitsmarkt, Nurnberg, GermanyWERNER BERGMAN Center for Anti-Semitism Research, Technical University, Berlin, GermanyFERDINAND BOLTKEN German Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning, Berlin, GermanyRAINER ERB Center for Anti-Semitism Research, Technical University, Berlin, GermanyARIBERT HAYDER Zentrum für Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen (ZUMA), Mannheim, GermanyJURGEN H.P. HOFFMEYER-ZLOTNIK Zentrum für Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen (ZUMA), Mannheim, GermanyMICHELLE JOHNSON State University of New York, Albany, USAACHIM KOCH Zentrum für Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen (ZUMA), Mannheim, GermanySTEFFEN KUHNEL Giessen University, GermanyRAINER MUNZ (Humboldt University)ULRICH ROSAR Cologne University, GermanyWOLFGANG SEIFERT (Landesregierung Nordrhein-Westfalen)MICHAEL TERWAY Cologne University, GermanyRALF ULRICH University of Bamberg, Germany
