Paul and Mikhail in Berlin.
Research
I recently completed an international research project titled "A Transnational Diaspora in the Making? The Case of Russian Speaking Jews in Three Countries - Israel, Germany and the United States. The project was funded by a generous grant from the Volkswagen Foundation and measured the socio, linguistic and cultural integration of Russian speaking Jews in the respective host societies.
The research was conducted with the cooperation of The Department of Sociology at Tel Aviv University and The Moses Mendelssohn Center for European Jewish Studies in Potsdam, Germany.
The findings were published in a book titled "Building a Diaspora: Russian Jews in Israel, Germany, and the USA", Boston: Brill Academic Press.
Downloadable Research
- Harris, Paul A. (forthcoming 2007) Russisch spraechige Juden in Deutschland zeit 1990: Perspektive und Analyse [Russian Speaking Jewish Immigrants in Germany Since 1990: Perspective and Analysis]. In, Klaus Bade, Pieter C. Emmer, Leo Lucassen and Jochen Oltmer, eds. Enzyklopaedie Migration in Europa: vom 17. Jahrhundert Bis Zur Gegenwart. Schoeningh: Wilhelm Fink Verlag. English Translation appears in - The Encyclopedia of Migration in Europe from the 17th Century to the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Baker, William E. and Paul A. Harris (2006) Unwelcome Strangers to the New South: Georgia's Response to Undocumented Migration. In, Baringhorst, Sigrid, James F. Hollifield, and Uwe Hunger, eds. Herausforderung Migration - Perspektiven der Vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft: Festschrift fuer Dietrich Thraenhardt. Berlin: Lit Verlag.
- Paul A. Harris (1999) Soviet Jews and Ethnic German Repatriates: The Role of Local
Government in Germany and its Impact Upon Migrant Integration.
This book chapter was translated to German and published under the following title: Harris, Paul A. (1999) Russische Juden und Aussiedler: Integrationspolitik und lokale Verantwortung. In Klaus J. Bade und Jochen Oltmer, eds. Aussiedler: deutsche Einwanderer aus Osteuropa. IMIS-Schriften, Bd. 8. Osnabrueck: Universitaetsverlag Rasch. Pp. 247-263. - Is Germany an Ethnic Nation? Ethno-National Identity Transformation in Light of Post-War Immigration.
Paper delivered at the Georgia Association of Historians Annual Meeting, April 13-14, 2001. Augusta State University, Augusta, Georgia. - Imagined Identity: Immigration, Ueberfremdung, and Cultural Chauvinsim in German Far-Right Partisan Discourse.
Harris, Paul A. (2001) Imagined Identity: Immigration, Ueberfremdung, and Cultural Chauvinsim in German Far-Right Partisan Discourse. German Policy Studies/Politikfeldanalyse 1:3:331-358. - An Unexpected, Yet Welcome Development: Jewish Migration to Germany, 1990-2000.
Full Citation: Harris, Paul A. (2001) An Unexpected, Yet Welcome Development: Jewish Migration to Germany, 1990-2000. In, Uwe Hunger, Karin Meenderman and Bernhard Santel (eds.), Einwanderung in Erklaerten und Unerklaerten Einwanderungslaendern. London + Muenster: Lit Verlag.