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This study by Cooper (PhD, sociology, U. of Osnabruck, Germany) examines how Germans living in the Federal Republic of Germany (prior to unification, West Germany) changed their perceptions of immigrants from different parts of the world and with different cultural backgrounds between 1945 and 2006. He relates changing perceptions of immigrants to changing perceptions of German identity in the Federal Republic. He argues that changing views towards immigrants reflect the dwindling importance of an ethno-cultural form of German identity and its replacement by more diffuse forms of state identity created by the population's integration into the different structures of the welfare state. Distributed in North America by ISBS. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
