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Rita Chin
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1999
Contact Information:
University of Michigan
2526 Haven Hall
Phone:
734-615-9320
E-mail:
rchin@umich.edu
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Field(s) of Study:
Late modern Europe, especially post-1945; Germany; comparative European migrations; transnationalism; ethnic minorities; gender; intellectual history; cultural studies.
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Biography:
Rita Chin holds degrees in history from the University of Washington (B.A., 1990) and the University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D., 1999). Trained in European intellectual and cultural history, her work brings the study of ethnic minorities into the center of modern German and European history. She published The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany (Cambridge University Press) in 2007. This book explores the postwar labor migration’s social, cultural, and ideological impacts, both on guest workers and German society at large. She has also begun research on a second major book project which examines how leftist groups in Germany, Great Britain, and France have grappled with the questions of racial/ethnic difference raised by the arrival of millions of new immigrants after 1945. The larger goal is to understand the ground-level history of creating multicultural communities in the “New Europe” as well as the growing consensus among contemporary Europeans across the political spectrum that Muslim immigrants are incompatible with European values and liberal democracy.
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Selected Publications:
The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521870003
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=99671219077063
After the Nazi Racial State: Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe (University of Michigan Press, forthcoming Spring 2009). Co-authored with Heide Fehrenbach, Geoff Eley, and Atina Grossmann.
"Review of Betigul Ercan Argun, Turkey in Germany: The Transnational Sphere of Deutschkei," H-German, H-Net Reviews, December, 2003.
URL: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=317941073606076.
“Toward a ‘Minor Literature’? The Case of Ausländerliteratur in Postwar Germany,” New Perspectives on Turkey, Special Issue: Forty Years of Turkish Migration to Germany, 28-29 (2003): 61-84..
“Imagining a German Multiculturalism: Aras Ören and the Contested Meanings of the ‘Guest Worker,’ 1955-1980,” Radical History Review 83.2 (2002): 44-72.
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Current Projects:
The European Left and Postwar Immigration (book project in progress)
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