In this paper, I will compare the motives as well as differences and similarities of American expatriation to European cities in two different time periods. For this, the research will look at the emigrant generation of the 1920s post-war Parisian literary community and, in a second step, this community of writers will be compared to today’s American expatriates in Berlin. The research aims at illustrating how those two periods have influenced the emigrants’ decision of leaving the country and what social circumstances of the respective time period in European centers have shaped the generation’s lifestyle.
The United States of America, once a country conquered, and then a nation founded, by various European nationalities, is the starting point of this paper. The century-long waves of immigration into this country give the historical justification of the U.S. as an immigrant nation. From this point of view, the movements of emigration away from this country over the last decades show a counterstream back to Europe. In this process of migration a tendency of being attracted to European urban centers characterizes American emigration.
Content
I INTRODUCTION
I a) Intention of Research
I b) Clarification of the Terms Expatriate, Sojourner, and Immigrant
I c) American Emigration to Europe
II AMERICAN IMMIGRATION TO EUROPE IN THE 1920S
II a) Motives for Departure
II b) Immigrant Communities
II c) Integration into the French Community
II c i) Learning the French Language
III AMERICAN EXPATRIATES IN BERLIN TODAY
III a) Methodology
III b) Presentation of the Interviewees
III c) Motives for Departure
III d) Immigrant Communities
III d i) Work-Related International Communities
IV WHAT COMES AFTER EXPATRIATION
IV a) Stay in Europe or Return to the US
IV b) Perspectives of the 1920s Expatriates
IV c) Today’s Berlin Expatriates’ Projects
V CONCLUSION
VI APPENDIX
VI a) Interviewees’ contact details
VI b) Interview Notes
VI c) German Summary
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Citation du texte
- Laura Götz (Auteur), 2015, America Goes Abroad. American Emigration to the European Metropolis in the 1920s and Today, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/368974
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