Similarities and Disparities of Discourse of Immigration in Germany and the U.S.

Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,7, University of Siegen, language: English, abstract: Today immigration is a red-hot issue in many different countries and has a huge impact on the advancement of societies. This term paper therefore firstly provides an overview of the 'new immigration' period in the U.S. Secondly, it will elucidate some of the different repercussions of immigration, including concepts such as 'nativism', 'cultural pluralism', or 'melting pot', which concern a society´s development faced with an enormous number of new immigrants. In order to compare this situation with that in Germany, an analysis of the depiction of the immigration situation in Germany in the online magazine Spiegel Online will be presented. The next paragraph will examine the similarities and disparities in the development and depiction of immigration in Germany and America, and the last paragraph will summarise the most pivotal facts contained in this term paper.