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SUMMARY:[Historikertag 2018] The Politics of Citizenship: Enemy Aliens, Citizenship Classification, and the Division of Societies in Twentieth-Century Germany, the Netherlands and Europe
DESCRIPTION:Twentieth century Europe has frequently been divided by the politics of citizenship in war and peace. When societies were forcibly unified against an external enemy, when they were reconfigured in phases of post-war reconstruction, or when they were redefined in the face of ideological adversaries, conflicts over citizenship provide us with an analytical lens into the dynamics of such historical transitions. This panel explores some of the functions that citizenship has served from the mid-century onwards. It focuses on Germany from the Second World War to the era of national division and pays special attention to reconfigurations of citizenship in the context of Dutch-German encounters and the influx of Germans from former Eastern territories. Kim Wünschmann asks how concepts of citizenship and ethno-national belonging structured German and Dutch policies towards foreign civilians during the Second World War. After the war, the practice of classifying individuals as ‘enemy aliens’ left many legacies in the redrafting of national borders. Marieke Oprel investigates Dutch policies of ethno-national categorisation of German ‘enemy citizens’. The immediate post-war moment also redefined German citizenship. Pertti Ahonen examines both the reclassification efforts of the occupation forces and (re-)emerging German administrative authorities and grassroots perspectives of ordinary people on ‘expellees’. Once the immediate post-war moment was overcome, Germans were divided along ideological lines. Sebastian Gehrig explores the politics of citizenship between the two German states as part of wider international struggles over the relationship of citizenship and nationality as constitutive elements of national sovereignty. Taken together, the panel takes citizenship as a lens into the internal divisions of societies and the redrafting of boundaries between societies along ethnic, religious, social, and ideological lines from the Second World War into the Cold War.
Der Beitrag The Politics of Citizenship: Enemy Aliens, Citizenship Classification, and the Division of Societies in Twentieth-Century Germany, the Netherlands and Europe erschien zuerst auf Historikertag 2018.
LOCATION:HS102 (Hörsäle im Philosophikum)
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