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Hans Werner. Imagined Homes: Soviet German Immigrants in Two Cities.

Publication: Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal
Publication Date: 22-MAR-08 		Format: Online
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Full Article Title: Hans Werner. Imagined Homes: Soviet German Immigrants in Two Cities.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Hans Werner. Imagined Homes: Soviet German Immigrants in Two Cities. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2007. 297 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $29.95 sc.

This book seeks to examine the ways in which a multicultural receiving society (Winnipeg, Canada) influenced the ways in which the tension of being a newcomer to Winnipeg dissipated into a general sense of belonging (4). Werner tries to emphasize the immigrant and host society's perceptions of each other. He also attempts to better understand the German immigrants' social and cultural integration, while taking into consideration the immigrant experiences that both helped and hindered the process of immigrants coming to feel"at home" in a new city. Werner does this by comparing ethnic Germans in Winnipeg with those who immigrated to Bielefeld, Germany.

Werner divides his book into four sections: 1)"The Setting;'...

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