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- Title
‘When I Marry a Mohammedan’: Migration and the Challenges of Interethnic Marriages in Post-War Germany.
- Authors
WOESTHOFF, JULIA
- Abstract
Discussions about intermarriage between foreign Muslim men and German Christian women from the 1950s to the 1970s shaped concepts of Islam, gender and difference found in more recent integration debates. Those insisting on inherent incompatibilities between Germans and Turks since the 1970s have drawn on these tropes developed decades earlier. Yet the post-war context differed from the later period in three important ways: the Muslim foreigners were students and interns, not guestworkers; it was German Christian women (not foreign Muslim women in Germany) who were the presumed victims of Muslim men; and it was principally national church institutions that formulated the language about difference.
- Subjects
GERMANY; INTERETHNIC marriage; INTERRACIAL marriage; INTERFAITH marriage; MUSLIM men; CHRISTIAN women; MUSLIMS; MARRIAGE; 20TH century German emigration &; immigration history; MUSLIM students; RACE relations in Germany; GERMAN religions; CHRISTIAN-Islam relations; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Contemporary European History, 2013, Vol 22, Issue 2, p199
- ISSN
0960-7773
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0960777313000052