Introduction

pp 1-16

PART I - CONTINUITY AND COMPLEXITY: MIGRATIONS FROM EAST ELBIAN GERMANY AND GALICIAN POLAND

1 - German Emigration Research, North, South, and East: Findings, Methods, and Open Questions

pp 19-34

2 - Colonist Traditions and Nineteenth-Century Emigration from East Elbian Prussia

pp 35-56

3 - Overseas Emigration from Mecklenburg-Strelitz: The Geographic and Social Contexts

pp 57-78

4 - Emigration from Regierungsbezirk Frankfurt/Oder, 1815-1893

pp 79-100

5 - Preserving or Transforming Role? Migrants and Polish Territories in the Era of Mass Migrations

pp 101-124

Part II - Internal German Migrations and In-Migrations

6 - Traveling Workers and the German Labor Movement

pp 127-146

7 - Migration in Duisburg, 1821-1914

pp 147-176

8 - In-Migration and Out-Migration in an Area of Heavy Industry: The Case of Georgsmarienhütte, 1856-1870

pp 177-200

9 - Foreign Workers in and around Bremen, 1884-1918

pp 201-224

PART III - WOMEN'S MIGRATION: LABOR AND MARRIAGE MARKETS

10 - The International Marriage Market: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives

pp 227-248

11 - Making Service Serve Themselves: Immigrant Women and Domestic Service in North America, 1850-1920

pp 249-266

12 - German Domestic Servants in America, 1850-1914: A New Look at German Immigrant Women's Experiences

pp 267-294

13 - Acculturation of Immigrant Women in Chicago at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

pp 295-310

PART IV - ACCULTURATION IN AND RETURN FROM THE UNITED STATES

14 - Communicating the Old and the New: German Immigrant Women and Their Press in Comparative Perspective around 1900

pp 313-328

15 - Return Migration to an Urban Center: The Example of Bremen, 1850-1914

pp 329-346

16 - Migration, Ethnicity, and Working-Class Formation: Passaic, New Jersey, 1889-1926

pp 347-378

17 - Changing Gender Roles and Emigration: The Example of German Jewish Women and Their Emigration to the United States, 1933-1945

pp 379-398

18 - Migration Past and Present - The German Experience

pp 399-412

19 - Research on the German Migrations, 1820s to 1930s: A Report on the State of German Scholarship

pp 413-422

Index

pp 423-433