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The chapter contextualizes this study of intergenerational migration consequences by providing an overview of past and present migration from German-speaking Europe to New Zealand. A brief summary of relevant theories and studies of migration, settlement and generational incorporation pathways as well as findings of German language maintenance or loss across immigrant generations follows. Furthermore, the chapter provides definitions of generation in migration research, rationalizes the study, presents the research questions and introduces the different parts of the book.
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I use the term ‘German speakers’ because the German language was a starting point to my study. Also, historical European border shifts and historical British naturalization practices make the term ‘Germans’ (as in German nationals but often also assigned to all German speakers) in migration from German-speaking Europe to New Zealand problematic.
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Anglophone usage: George Forster.
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This is sad and ironic given the peoples’ common roots and ongoing connections. Giving into similar political pressure, the British royal family changed their German family name Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha) to Windsor during WWI. Such cleansing of Germanness continued. The UK’s prince Philip’s paternal name Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg was disregarded and he Anglicized his mother’s name von Battenberg to Mountbatten in 1947.
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Those who use a New Zealand passport acquired either through dual citizenship or through change of citizenship are not included in these numbers.
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E.g., http://e2nz.org.
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Graves’ article suggests that whilst the three cultural groups (Anglos, Latinos, native American Indians) lived side by side for a long time in the community where the research was carried out, there was not much close contact between them.
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Mp3 recording extract on http://www.deutschboehmisch.de/neuseeland/.
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Wohlfart, I.K. (2017). Introduction. In: Intergenerational Consequences of Lifestyle Migration. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3260-8_1
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