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This book examines the role of knowledge in policy, showing how policymakers use research to establish authority in contentious areas of policy.
The varying traditions in the migration research of different countries are closely connected to the respective national political landscape and the way in which the respective national state views itself - affirmative and positive or perhaps more self-critical. Seen side by side, much emerges to be discussed and challenged that was previously beyond doubt. The present volume introduces the reader to the traditions of migration research in twelve different countries: the more traditional immigration countries of Canada and Australia, four European countries with decades of experience (United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Netherlands), countries newer to immigration such as Italy, Poland and Jap...
English summary: This study uses the insights drawn from newly-discovered archival material from Moscow, Warsaw, Berlin, London and Washington D.C. to reconstruct the contemporary perceptions of West German Ostpolitik in Poland, the GDR, the Soviet Union, Great Britain and the USA. German text. German description: Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg, der Westverschiebung Polens und den Vertreibungen der Deutschen aus diesen Gebieten, schien das Verhaltnis zwischen Polen und Deutschland als bleibend feindselig definiert. Entsprechend schwierig gestalteten sich die Beziehungen zwischen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und der Volksrepublik Polen. Erst mit Willy Brandts Neuer Ostpolitik seit 1969, die auf...