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Citizens and Refugees: Stories from Afghanistan and Syria to Germany By Joachim C. Häberlen. London: Routledge, 2023. x + 187 pages. Cloth $170.00. ISBN: 978-1032215136.

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Citizens and Refugees: Stories from Afghanistan and Syria to Germany By Joachim C. Häberlen. London: Routledge, 2023. x + 187 pages. Cloth $170.00. ISBN: 978-1032215136.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2023

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Central European History , Volume 56 , Issue 3 , September 2023 , pp. 455 - 461
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2 Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge, Migrationsbericht der Bundesregierung. Migrationsbericht 2019 (Berlin: Bundesministerium des Innern, 2020), 88, 89, 246.

3 Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge, Migrationsbericht der Bundesregierung. Migrationsbericht 2016/2017 (Berlin: Bundesministerium des Innern, 2019), 203.

4 See, for example, Hamann, Ulrike and Karakayali, Serhat, “Practicing Willkommenskultur. Migration and Solidarity in Germany,” Intersections: East European Journal of Society and Politics 2, no. 4 (2016): 69–86CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and, for a more historical perspective, Plamper, Jan, Das neue Wir. Warum Migration dazugehört. Eine andere Geschichte der Deutschen (Frankfurt/Main: S. Fischer Verlag, 2019), 270–317Google Scholar.

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15 Stokes, Lauren, “The Permanent Refugee Crisis in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949–,” Central European History 52, no. 1 (2019): 19–44CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Stokes, Lauren, “Racial Profiling on the U-Bahn: Policing the Berlin Gap in the Schönefeld Airport Refugee Crisis,” Central European History 56, no. 2 (2023): 236–54CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Molnar, Christopher A., “Greetings from the Apocalypse: Race, Migration, and Fear after German Reunification,” Central European History 54, no. 3 (2021): 491–515CrossRefGoogle Scholar. This trend is also evident in other journals. See, for example, the forum “The Refugee Crisis in Historical Perspective,” Journal of Modern European History 20, no. 1 (2020); and the special issue “Refugees Then and Now: Memory, History and Politics in the Long Twentieth Century,” Pattens of Prejudice 52, nos. 2–3 (2018).

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19 Peter Gatrell, “Refugees—What's Wrong with History?” Journal of Refugee Studies 30, no. 2 (2017): 170–89. For a similar article that takes stock of the growth of the field and seeks to set an intellectual agenda for the field of refugee history, see Lauren Banko, Katarzyna Nowak, and Peter Gatrell, “What Is Refugee History, Now?” Journal of Global History 17, no. 1 (2022): 1–19.