Technical Brokering of Immigrant Adolescents in Switzerland: A Developmental-Acculturative Perspective

In the present digital age, intrafamilial dynamics and adolescents’ support of their parents in media use (technical brokering, Katz, 2010) are increasing in attention. However, the significance of migration-specific processes in adolescents’ technical brokering is less understood. In immigrant families, adolescents’ technical brokering may help families in adapting to the host culture and in keeping contact with friends and family abroad. This study investigated differences in the level of technical brokering between German immigrant and native Swiss adolescents and tested whether migration-unrelated (family life) or migration-related (i.e., culture brokering, Tse, 1995) factors are better predictors of interindividual differences in technical brokering in high SES immigrant families. The sample comprised 301 adolescents in Switzerland: 136 German immigrant adolescents (average age = 15.3, 65% female) and 165 native Swiss adolescents (average age = 15.9, 61% female). Adolescents stated the frequency of technical brokering tasks as well as culture brokering and migration-related processes. The results revealed that German immigrant adolescents provided technical brokering more frequently than native Swiss adolescents. Hierarchical regressions confirmed that technical brokering in German immigrant families is best explained by adolescents’ supporting their family in mastering the transition to a new country, as predictors pertaining to culture brokering, and host culture orientation explained most of the variance. This interpretation received further support by an interaction effect showing that technical brokering is particularly frequent when adolescents act as a culture broker in families with substantial socio-cultural adaptation difficulties. This study complements an often deficit-oriented view on immigrant youth with a view of their active and constructive role in immigrant family processes.

Komentar Ujaran Kebencian pada Berita Imigran Jerman dalam Facebook

This study discusses how hate speech comments on German immigrant news in social media Facebook. The purpose of the study is to describe hate speech on German immigrant news in social media Facebook and its forms in the comments column on Facebook. The study uses descriptive qualitative research and illocutionary speech act theory analysis. The results showed that the forms of hate speech found were rassismus and fremdenfeindlichkeit, antisemitismus and antimuslimischer rassismus, sexismus, homo and transphobie, and active politick. The most common hate speech found is politic aktive, namely hatred towards the German government and activists who defend minorities. The most common illocutionary acts found were expressive illocutionary acts in the form of satire for the German government, which according to them, prioritized immigrants over German society

Racial Justice

Reinhold Niebuhr’s ideas invite us to confront problems of racial justice. Probing questions of method that consider whiteness and white supremacy in US-American life yields guidance for identifying how Christian ethics produces useful approaches to questions of racial justice. Examples from Reinhold Niebuhr’s twentieth-century Christian ethics commentaries on white dominance and his methodological assumptions spark an exploration of how related arguments in twenty-first century Christian ethics and theology analyses of white dominance can contribute. Besides method, concrete racist attitudes and practices in need of Christian ethics disruption are revealed in the politics of immigration seen in Niebuhr’s 1920s claims about German immigrant ethnic identity struggles and addressed by current Christian ethicists on twenty-first-century opposition to welcoming impoverished, migrant brown peoples into the United States.

Photographers of the Civil War Era: Theodore Gubelman of Jersey City

The Civil War greatly increased what later became known as “picture hunger.” To meet the demand, 235 new photo galleries started in New Jersey between 1861 and 1865, among them that of the ambitious German immigrant Theodore Gubelman of Jersey City. Although many of the Civil War era photographers did not make the medium their long-term career, Gubelman took advantage of changing trends and technology to remain in business into the next century.

The Sellers of Catan: The Impact of the Settlers of Catan on the United States Leisure and Business Landscape, 1995-2019

While Monopoly is still one of the best-known board games in the United States today, increasing attention is paid to The Settlers of Catan, a mid-1990s German immigrant to the United States and a mid to late 2010s staple in popular culture and on store shelves. However, the one place where Catan has seen a drop in popularity over the past decade is in its first world, that of hobby board games. With so many new and innovative games and mechanics flooding the hobby market each year, Catan struggles to find a place. This struggle is due in part to its lack of innovation, attempt to keep pace with game trends, and seemingly, a reluctance to buy into the popularity of app-supported games (though solely mobile versions of Catan exist), crowdfunding, and new mechanics. This research explores Catan’s history in the United States to illustrate the paradox of its growing popularity with the general public while also experiencing a downturn in accolades from within the hobby, all while functioning as a barometer against which we can measure trends in the selling and playing of hobby board games.

HENRIQUE KATZENBERG: INCIDENTES ENVOLVENDO UM IMIGRANTE ALEMÃO DURANTE O ESTADO NOVO * HENRIQUE KATZENBERG: INCIDENTS INVOLVING A GERMAN IMMIGRANT DURING THE “ESTADO NOVO”

Este artigo analisa a situação de um imigrante alemão, residente no município de São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, no contexto de nacionalização. Utiliza-se como objeto de pesquisa, correspondências recebidas pela prefeitura de São Leopoldo, no período de 1941 a 1943, relacionadas ao imigrante Henrique Katzenberg. As mesmas são analisadas tendo em vista o contexto local, nacional com base em autores que abordam o Estado Novo e a Campanha de Nacionalização. Analisar correspondências e relacioná-las com o período em que estão inseridas é uma forma de valorizar o sujeito no processo histórico. O estudo permite compreender a influência da Campanha de Nacionalização durante o Estado Novo, no cotidiano da população, de imigrantes e descendentes alemães, na localidade pesquisada.*This paper analyzes the situation of a German immigrant, resident in the municipality of São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, in the context of nationalization. We used as research object the correspondence received by the prefecture of São Leopoldo, from 1941 to 1943, related to the immigrant Henrique Katzenberg. These are analyzed in view of the local, national context based on authors who approached the New State (Estado Novo) and the Nationalization Campaign. Analyzing the correspondence and relating it to the period in which it is inserted is a way to put a value on the subject in the historical process. The study allows us to understand the influence of the Nationalization Campaign during the New State “Estado Novo”, in the daily life of the population, of German immigrants and descendants, in the researched locality.

Introduction

The Introduction to the book lays out the aims of the project, formulates its major contributions, and explains its structure. It introduces the category of the ‘exorbitant’ as an important new way of a multilingual way of studying the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries allows us to reconceptualize the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and modernity. It also discusses why the book chapters function as ‘constellations’, rather than sequentially, a methodological background that is inspired by Walter Benjamin. This chapter gives two concentrated examples of the main contributions of the book. It shows the need for our recovery of a rich yet unknown Anglo-German context in pre-1790 Britain by offering a new reading of Robinson Crusoe in this light (Crusoe’s original name is ‘Kreutznaer’; he is a second-generation German immigrant). Correspondingly, it introduces some of the main historical and theoretical affinities between William Blake and Johann Georg Hamann.

Niebuhr, Reinhold (1892–1971)

Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr was an influential pastor and theologian in America. His thought initially centered on liberal pacifism, but it later turned to the program of the social gospel and, finally, to ‘Christian Realism’. Niebuhr’s father was a German immigrant Protestant pastor; his mother also came from an immigrant pastor’s family. Niebuhr completed his theological education at Eden Theological Seminary (Webster Groves, Missouri) and Yale Divinity School, and he was ordained in 1913.