TY - ENCYC KW - History KW - Canada KW - Germans KW - 20th century KW - Immigrants KW - German Canadians KW - 1900-1999 KW - Collective memory KW - Intergenerational relations AU - Alexander Freund AB -

"Being German Canadian explores how multi-generational families and groups have interacted and shaped each other's integration and adaptation in Canadian society, focusing on the experiences, histories, and memories of German immigrants and their descendants. As one of Canada's largest ethnic groups, German Canadians allow for a variety of longitudinal and multi-generational studies that explore how different generations have negotiated and transmitted diverse individual experiences, collective memories, and national narratives. Drawing on recent research in memory and migration studies, this volume studies how twentieth-century violence shaped the integration of immigrants and their descendants. More broadly, the collection seeks to document the state of the field in German-Canadian history. Being German Canadian brings together senior and junior scholars from History and related disciplines to investigate the relationship between, and significance of, the concepts of generation and memory for the study of immigration and ethnic history. It aims to move immigration historiography towards exploring the often fraught relationship among different immigrant generations--whether generation is defined according to age cohort or era of arrival."--Page 4 of cover.

BT - Studies in immigration and culture, 17 CY - Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada DP - ocul-wtl.primo.exlibrisgroup.com LA - eng PB - University of Manitoba Press PP - Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada PY - 2021 SN - 978-0-88755-919-8 ST - Being German Canadian T1 - Being German Canadian: history, memory, generations T2 - Studies in immigration and culture, 17 ER -