Überlegungen zu einem Postmigrant Turn

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, anti-immigrant violence saw a sharp increase in Europe and North America, as frustrations about the public health conditions and the governments’ responses to the state of crisis resulted in a rising tide of xenophobia. In this blog post, guest contributors Rahel Cramer (Macquarie U), Jara Schmidt (U Hamburg), and Jule Thiemann (U Hamburg) reflect on the connections between contemporary events and academia and advocate for a postmigrant turn in German Studies, an approach that foregrounds the notions of “postmigration” and “post-monolingualism” as the keys to challenging monolithic narratives of historiography and national homogeneity. You can read the post in the original German <a href="https://mgp.berkeley.edu/2021/08/30/postmigrant-turn-german/">here</a>.