Multicultural Germany Project    University of California, Berkeley
Germany in Transit
(Forthcoming 2006, UC Press)
This comprehensive sourcebook charts for the first time postwar Germany's irrevocable transformation into a multiethnic immigration country. More information...

TRANSIT [ISSN 1551-9627], originating from the Department of German at the University of California - Berkeley, is the first refereed, multidisciplinary online journal dedicated to the critical inquiry of travel, migration, and multiculturalism in the German-speaking world. More information...
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