Ethnizität und Organisierte Geselligkeit. Das Assoziationswesen deutscher Migranten in Neuseeland im mittleren und späten 19. Jahrhundert

Bueltmann, Tanja (2012) Ethnizität und Organisierte Geselligkeit. Das Assoziationswesen deutscher Migranten in Neuseeland im mittleren und späten 19. Jahrhundert. Historische Zeitschrift, 295 (3). pp. 660-689. ISSN 0018-2613

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Abstract

The history of German migrants in New Zealand has only received little attention in historical scholarship, and the few studies that exist argue that the assimilation of German migrants was protracted. This article questions this traditional argument by exploring German associational culture. Ethnic associationalism among migrants helps to investigate the conditions for their assimilation or segregation, and promotes scrutiny of the continuity and discontinuity of ethnicity. The article documents that German associations, by offering coherent structures for organised sociability, were a response to an increasingly evolving colonial society, thus contributing an important new perspective on the experiences of non-British migrants in New Zealand. As sites of memory, German ethnic associations offered continuity with the past, while their interaction with wider colonial society facilitated assimilation. The associations’ activities, particularly as friendly societies, show that Germans were more integrated in New Zealand society than has previously been assumed. They used the same strategies as other migrants groups, ethnic associations could aid assimilation, and were quite successfully integrated in the matrix of New Zealand associational culture.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Title translation: Ethnicity and Organized Sociability. The Association being German immigrants in New Zealand in the middle and late 19th Century
Subjects:	R200 German studies V100 History by period V200 History by area
Department:	Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Humanities
Depositing User:	Ay Okpokam
Date Deposited:	21 Jan 2013 14:50
Last Modified:	12 Oct 2019 19:24
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/11022

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