Ethnography of an Encounter: Reactions to refugees in post‐war Germany and Russian migrants after the reunification ‐ context, analogies and changes
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The village of Winterfeld in the former German Democratic Republic experienced two encounters with refugees: after the Second World War with Germans driven from their homes farther east, and again in 1990 with Jews from the Soviet Union. Interviews with over 100 of these refugees reveal the psychological and social reaction of the villagers who had to deal with the feelings of insecurity induced by decades of surveillance and control and their deep‐seated traditional fears of strangers and witches. This type of research raises important methodological questions.
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16(1-2)
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175-190
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Link to article (paywalled), Ethnography of an Encounter: Reactions to refugees in post‐war Germany and Russian migrants after the reunification ‐ context, analogies and changes
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Ethnography of an Encounter: Reactions to refugees in post‐war Germany and Russian migrants after the reunification ‐ context, analogies and changes. 2000: 175-190. https://archive.jpr.org.uk/10.1080/13523270008415436
