Bönisch-Brednich, Brigitte

Keeping a low profile : an oral history of German immigration to New Zealand / Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich. - 351 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm

"This book is a revised version of Auswandern - destination Neuseeland: eine ethnographische migrationsstudie (Berlin: Mana-Verlag, 2002)"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-351).

To leave means to live, 1936-40 : the Refugees -- Emigration from a Germany in ruins, 1948-52 -- For two years or forever? : 1956-66 : young work migrants -- The individualists of the 1970s, or the emigration gap -- The 1980s : search for peace and paradise -- The 1990s : emigration and lifestyle -- What it means to be a foreigner -- Comparing countries : Deutschland versus New Zealand -- Missing, organising, discovering : emigration and materiality -- Gender and migration. PT. 1 : ARRIVALS -- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. PT. 2 : THEMES -- 7. 8. 9. 10.

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Bönisch-Brednich, Brigitte


Immigrants--History--New Zealand
Germans--History--New Zealand


New Zealand--Emigration and immigration

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