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Author: Lauren Stokes (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, Northwestern University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 23.90cm
, Height: 2.60cm
, Length: 16.30cm
Weight: 0.572kg
ISBN: 9780197558416
ISBN 10: 0197558410
Pages: 308
Publication Date: 27 May 2022
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
The best historians make the past urgent. Lauren Stokes's Fear of the Family does just this. She shows how Germany's so-called migration crisis has been underway for over half a century, and its most relevant figure has not been the isolated laborer but the family. An illuminating book with high stakes in a world where kinship networks are forced to carry ever more of the burden of the welfare state. * Quinn Slobodian, author of Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism * While the history of the Federal Republic of Germany has often been written as centering on the reconstruction of the German family, this book highlights how fear of the foreign family structured West German immigration policies from the 1970s to the present. Deeply researched and beautifully written, this pioneering book inserts the category of 'race' and racialization into the history of postwar Germany. It provides an indispensable historical perspective on current debates about immigration and multiculturalism in Europe. * Frank Biess, University of California, San Diego * This is a powerful, illuminating, and tragically timely book. Based on a wealth of fascinating and original archival materials, it teaches us much about the deeply material practices, routines, and policies that have structured the lives of migrant families in Germany. Stokes deftly and effectively moves between a deep treatment of the laws and experiences of migration within the German state and a larger story of families on the move that is all too universal. * Jordanna Bailkin, University of Washington * Lauren Stokes astutely analyzes the intersection of race, immigrant status, gender, and family in the Federal Republic of Germany. Brilliantly researched and full of revealing anecdotes, Fear of the Family shows us the gap between the West German state's 'family values' and its fear of the (immigrant) family-as well as the injurious policies that often resulted. This book should be required reading for anyone concerned with social policy, immigration, and the family in the twentieth century. * Elizabeth Heineman, University of Iowa *
Author Information
Lauren Stokes is Assistant Professor of History at Northwestern University.
