Keeping a low profile: an oral history of german immigration to New Zealand
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Victoria Univ. Press
2002
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| Physical Description: | 351 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 0864734395 |
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An Oral History of
German Immigration
to New Zealand
Brigitte Bonisch-Brednich
Victoria University Press
Contents
Preface 9
Introduction 11
Methods and material 13
A brief history of Germans in New Zealand 15
PART I: ARRIVALS
Chapter 1
To Leave Means to Live, 1936—40: the Refugees 21
How to get out and in 22
Leaving 27
Arriving 28
Integrating 30
To be or not to be welcomed 34
Circles of friends, leisure, and the meaning of art and music 44
Living in New Zealand now 46
Chapter 2
Emigration from a Germany in Ruins, 1948-52:
Chance Emigrants and Individualists 50
Four very different people 53
Leaving Germany 54
Settling in New Zealand 60
Emigration in retrospect 63
Chapter 3
For Two Years or Forever? 1956—66: Young Work Migrants 66
Good reasons to leave 70
Arriving and working 73
Integration into the new life 76
Circles of friends and German clubs 80
The significance of Germany 83
Looking back 85
Chapter 4
The Individualists of the 1970s, or the Emigration Gap 88
Migrant workers 91
The rebels 94
The academ ics 98
The lovers, I 100
The yachties 102
Relating to the German side of life 105
Chapter 5
The 1980s: Search for Peace and Paradise 107
Who immigrated? 109
Computer specialists and other professionals:
changing countries but not jobs 111
Living an alternative lifestyle 120
Accidental immigration: the backpackers 127
The lovers, II 131
Chapter 6
The 1990s: Emigration and Lifestyle 137
The well-off, or early retirement 138
Projects and business ideas 143
Travellers, or tourism and emigration 145
Young urban migrants and the concept of life-phase
migration 147
Friends in New Zealand 149
Visits from Germany, visits to Germany 151
Part-time migrants, or the end of emigration 154
PART II: THEMES
Chapter 7
What It Means to Be a Foreigner 159
Language, or orality as a feature 162
Reflections on language 163
Translation problems 168
Living with two languages 174
Cultural misunderstandings 176
As children see it 182
The shadow of war 185
Fighting-back stories 188
Positioning through arguments 193
Distancing by describing the New Zealand perspective 194
The example of the German breakfast 198
Mental mapping 200
Settling into the state of difference 204
Chapter 8
Comparing Countries: Deutschland versus New Zealand 207
The narrative technique of comparison 207
What was and is New Zealand like? What were and are
New Zealanders? 209
Example 1: the construct of the classless society 209
Example 2: what is a Kiwi? 216
Example 3: talking about Maori 223
Germany on visits 228
New Zealand versus Germany 233
In favour of New Zealand 237
Chapter 9
Missing, Organising, Discovering: Emigration and Materiality 239
What is missed 240
Social and cultural networks 244
A summer Christmas 247
Christmas Eve make-believe 249
Christmas doesn t mean much 251
Mid-winter Christmas 252
Food and the cultural—culinary mix 254
Talking food 255
Notes on the history of New Zealand cooking 258
What is German food? 261
The subtleties of bread and coffee 264
Food networks 269
Selling food 272
The Leberkasbrotle, and why it s no longer needed 27 5
On muffins, pavlova and barbecue 116
Getting the food right 280
Chapter 10
Gender and Migration 282
Who decides? 284
Explaining decisions 287
Narratives of integration 291
Jobs 292
Men talk about success 293
Women talk about emotions 297
Emigration and personality 301
Conclusion 305
The development of emigration to New Zealand,
1936 to 1996 305
Self-designed migration biographies 307
Experiencing, remembering and narrating migration 309
What is not narrated — the necessity of participant
observation 3 1 5
Bibliography 318
Notes and References 333
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