Universität zu Köln

Guertzgen, Nicole and Hank, Karsten ORCID: 0000-0003-1844-7612 (2018). From Stasi-prison to the Golden West? East-West Internal Migration of Former GDR Political Prisoners. Koln. Z. Soziol. Sozialpsych., 70 (4). S. 689 - 705. WIESBADEN: SPRINGER VIEWEG-SPRINGER FACHMEDIEN WIESBADEN GMBH. ISSN 1861-891X

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Abstract

Roughly 200,000 former political prisoners of the German Democratic Republic could so far not be explicitly considered in studies of internal migration between East and West Germany. Using large-scale administrative data (BASiD), our descriptive analysis contributes to closing this research gap. We show that before unification 4% of non-prisoners in the birth cohorts included in our sample migrated to West Germany, whereas this was the case for as many as 56% of former political prisoners. After unification (until 2007), East-West migrants accounted equally for 11% of the sample in both groups. Discrete-time logistic regression models controlling for socio-demographic characteristics confirm these findings. The article concludes with adiscussion of perspectives for future research.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Guertzgen, Nicole UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Hank, Karsten UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-1844-7612 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-166367
DOI:	10.1007/s11577-018-0575-1
Journal or Publication Title:	Koln. Z. Soziol. Sozialpsych.
Volume:	70
Number:	4
Page Range:	S. 689 - 705
Date:	2018
Publisher:	SPRINGER VIEWEG-SPRINGER FACHMEDIEN WIESBADEN GMBH
Place of Publication:	WIESBADEN
ISSN:	1861-891X
Language:	German
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language Psychology, Social; Sociology Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/16636