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Leo Lucassenis professor of social history at the University of Leiden and associate professor at the University of Amsterdam. David Feldmanis senior lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London. Jochen Oltmeris affiliated with the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies at the University of Osnabruck. In the 1990s, as concern grew in the United States about the integration of large numbers of immigrants, scholars searching for historical parallels looked to the last great period of immigration, ffrom 1880 to 1914. That example, however, is generally viewed as inapplicable to the current immigration debates in Europe. "Paths of Integration" turns this conventional wisdom on its head, arguing that the history of European migration more closely parallels the U.S. experience than most realize, due to the largely ignored, but extensive, intra-European migration of the same period. By placing the European and U.S. examples side by side, the contributors to this volume offer long-term insights on a question that will be of great importance in the coming decades. Leo Lucassen, David Feldman, and Jochen Oltmer Immigrant Integration in Western Europe, Then and Now PART I: THEN AND NOW: CONVERGENT COMPARISONS Leo Lucassen Poles and Turks in the German Ruhr Area: Similarities and Differences Marie-Claude Blanc-Chaleard Old and New Migrants in France: Italians and Algerians Laure Teulieres Rural Dimensions at Stake: The Case of Italian Immigrants in Southwestern France Karen Schonwalder Assigning the State its Rightful Place? Migration, Integration and the State in Germany Jochen Oltmer 'To Live as Germans Among Germans.' Immigration and Integration of 'Ethnic Germans' in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic Barbara Dietz Aussiedlerin Germany: From Smooth Adaptation to Tough Integration PART II: HERE AND THERE: DIVERGENT COMPARISONS Dorota Praszalowicz Polish Berlin: Differences and Similarities with Poles in the Ruhr Area, 1860-1920 Mark-Anthony Falzon A Passage from India: Trajectories of Economic Integration in London and Mediterranean Europe Laurence Brown Afro-Caribbean Migrants in France and the United Kingdom PART III: INSTITUTIONS AND INTEGRATION Barbara Schmitter-Heisler Trade Unions and Immigrant Incorporation: The US and Europe Compared Marlou Schrover No More Than a Keg of Beer: The Coherence of German Immigrant Communities Thijl Sunier Religious Newcomers and the Nation-State: Flows and Closures Dorothee Schneider American Immigrants Look at Their Americanisation PART IV: CONCLUSION Leo Lucassen, David Feldman and Jochen Oltmer Drawing up the Balance Sheet About the Authors References Index