Christoph Ra
Biographic Data
| ID | 177487 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christoph Ra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christoph |
| FAMILY NAME | Ra |
| SIGNATURE | RA C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Osnabrück University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9492-907X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Disputed (Non-)Belonging: Migrant Agency in the European Displacement Crisis 1945–56
This article revisits the handling of ‘Displaced Persons’ in the aftermath of the Second World War by institutions like the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, the International Refugee Organization, and local authorities in Western Germany. Based on a case study, we focus on the categorization of marginal groups within the DP population, namely the production of ‘the Muslim element’ as a cipher for forced migrants read as no…
The Agency of Forced Migrants: Historical Perspectives
This introduction sets out the thematic and methodological framework of a special issue on historical refugee agency in the aftermath of the Second World War. It situates the volume within historiographical debates that move beyond narratives of passive victimization, instead foregrounding how refugees actively shaped their lives and the regimes that sought to govern them. The central question is how forced migrants exercised personal, proxy, and…
Producing Integration: The Translation of Non/Belonging in Germany and the United States
This essay examines how the concept of integration has been produced, translated, and institutionalized in Germany and the United States as a key element of policy frameworks that migranticize some people and, thus, translate them as outsiders. By combining conceptual history and translation theory, we analyze how the meaning of integration has evolved within academic and political discourse, tracing its emergence as a key category in migration g…
Displaced person(s): The Production of a Powerful Political Category
Migrating Concepts
The Bracero Program (1942–64), a bilateral agreement to regulate labor migration between the United States and Mexico, oversaw more than four million contracts enabling Mexican men to work “temporarily” in the United States. Historians of the Mexico-US borderlands and of global migration have interpreted the program through hemispheric as well as broader imperial lenses. Yet this article shows that the program’s foundational ideas emerged from tw…
Conflicted landscapes: The Kall Trail. Monitoring transformations of a Second World War heritage site using UAV-lidar remote sensing and ground truthing
The transformation of Second World War heritage sites is a common challenge for today's memory culture. In this project, we combine ground truthing with drone-based, high-resolution laser scanning to document recent anthropogenically and environmentally caused transformation processes, and to raise public awareness of the importance of the ever-changing conflict landscape of the 'Huertgen Forest
The battle of Vossenack Ridge: Exploring interdisciplinary approaches for the detection of U.S. Army field positions on a Second World War battlefield
Migration ein Bild geben: Visuelle Aushandlungen von Diversität
Waitman W. Beorn, Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus
Volksgemeinschaft‹ als soziale Praxis: Neue Forschungen zur NS-Gesellschaft vor Ort
Das »Dritte Reich« vor Ort betrachtet – neue Einblicke in die Gesellschaft des Nationalsozialismus Vor Ort wird Gesellschaft konkret. Der Band spürt den Regeln und Routinen des Alltags, den Formen der Vergemeinschaftung und Ausgrenzung im »Dritten Reich« nach: Wie brachte man sich in die NS-Gesellschaft ein, wie wurde man aus ihr ausgeschlossen? Welche Bedeutung hatte hierfür die Vorstellung von einer »Volksgemeinschaft«? War sie alltägliche Prax…
Temporary Labour Migration and State-Run Recruitment of Foreign Workers in Europe, 1919–1975: A New Migration Regime
Temporary labour migration was one of the characteristic phenomena of human mobility in Europe during the twentieth century. The predominant answer in several European countries to the growing economic demand for an external labour supply on the one hand, and political demands to limit the numbers of foreign workers and to protect the native workforce from the competition of “cheap” migrant labour on the other, was a growing direct and active inv…
Transformations: Post-Battle Processes on the Hürtgenwald Battlefield
This paper uses the 1944 Hürtgenwald battlefield on the German-Belgian border as a case study to reflect upon two issues: what contributions to an understanding of post-battle transformations are made by an analysis of Second World War battlefields; and how an archaeological approach can help understand the Hürtgenwald battlefield. The analysis presented here discusses what actually happens with a modern battlefield after the killing is over and …
Bilaterale Wanderungsverträge und die Entwicklung eines internationalen Arbeitsmarktes in Europa 1919-1974
Bilateral agreements characterized the international migration of labour within Western Europe in the 20th century. They regulated the temporary recruitment of mostly unqualified workers, their transfer and conditions of employment as well as the terms of their stay and secured a demand-tailored supply of foreign labour for the receiving countries. This essay discusses the institutional roots of bilateral labour agreements and their propagation, …
Displaced person(s): The Production of a Powerful Political Category
The battle of Vossenack Ridge: Exploring interdisciplinary approaches for the detection of U.S. Army field positions on a Second World War battlefield
Transformations: Post-Battle Processes on the Hürtgenwald Battlefield
This paper uses the 1944 Hürtgenwald battlefield on the German-Belgian border as a case study to reflect upon two issues: what contributions to an understanding of post-battle transformations are made by an analysis of Second World War battlefields; and how an archaeological approach can help understand the Hürtgenwald battlefield. The analysis presented here discusses what actually happens with a modern battlefield after the killing is over and …
Temporary Labour Migration and State-Run Recruitment of Foreign Workers in Europe, 1919–1975: A New Migration Regime
Temporary labour migration was one of the characteristic phenomena of human mobility in Europe during the twentieth century. The predominant answer in several European countries to the growing economic demand for an external labour supply on the one hand, and political demands to limit the numbers of foreign workers and to protect the native workforce from the competition of “cheap” migrant labour on the other, was a growing direct and active inv…
Producing Integration: The Translation of Non/Belonging in Germany and the United States
This essay examines how the concept of integration has been produced, translated, and institutionalized in Germany and the United States as a key element of policy frameworks that migranticize some people and, thus, translate them as outsiders. By combining conceptual history and translation theory, we analyze how the meaning of integration has evolved within academic and political discourse, tracing its emergence as a key category in migration g…
Conflicted landscapes: The Kall Trail. Monitoring transformations of a Second World War heritage site using UAV-lidar remote sensing and ground truthing
The transformation of Second World War heritage sites is a common challenge for today's memory culture. In this project, we combine ground truthing with drone-based, high-resolution laser scanning to document recent anthropogenically and environmentally caused transformation processes, and to raise public awareness of the importance of the ever-changing conflict landscape of the 'Huertgen Forest
Bilaterale Wanderungsverträge und die Entwicklung eines internationalen Arbeitsmarktes in Europa 1919-1974
Bilateral agreements characterized the international migration of labour within Western Europe in the 20th century. They regulated the temporary recruitment of mostly unqualified workers, their transfer and conditions of employment as well as the terms of their stay and secured a demand-tailored supply of foreign labour for the receiving countries. This essay discusses the institutional roots of bilateral labour agreements and their propagation, …
Transformations: Post-Battle Processes on the Hürtgenwald Battlefield
This paper uses the 1944 Hürtgenwald battlefield on the German-Belgian border as a case study to reflect upon two issues: what contributions to an understanding of post-battle transformations are made by an analysis of Second World War battlefields; and how an archaeological approach can help understand the Hürtgenwald battlefield. The analysis presented here discusses what actually happens with a modern battlefield after the killing is over and …
Temporary Labour Migration and State-Run Recruitment of Foreign Workers in Europe, 1919–1975: A New Migration Regime
Temporary labour migration was one of the characteristic phenomena of human mobility in Europe during the twentieth century. The predominant answer in several European countries to the growing economic demand for an external labour supply on the one hand, and political demands to limit the numbers of foreign workers and to protect the native workforce from the competition of “cheap” migrant labour on the other, was a growing direct and active inv…
Volksgemeinschaft‹ als soziale Praxis: Neue Forschungen zur NS-Gesellschaft vor Ort
Das »Dritte Reich« vor Ort betrachtet – neue Einblicke in die Gesellschaft des Nationalsozialismus Vor Ort wird Gesellschaft konkret. Der Band spürt den Regeln und Routinen des Alltags, den Formen der Vergemeinschaftung und Ausgrenzung im »Dritten Reich« nach: Wie brachte man sich in die NS-Gesellschaft ein, wie wurde man aus ihr ausgeschlossen? Welche Bedeutung hatte hierfür die Vorstellung von einer »Volksgemeinschaft«? War sie alltägliche Prax…
Waitman W. Beorn, Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus
Migration ein Bild geben: Visuelle Aushandlungen von Diversität
The battle of Vossenack Ridge: Exploring interdisciplinary approaches for the detection of U.S. Army field positions on a Second World War battlefield
Conflicted landscapes: The Kall Trail. Monitoring transformations of a Second World War heritage site using UAV-lidar remote sensing and ground truthing
The transformation of Second World War heritage sites is a common challenge for today's memory culture. In this project, we combine ground truthing with drone-based, high-resolution laser scanning to document recent anthropogenically and environmentally caused transformation processes, and to raise public awareness of the importance of the ever-changing conflict landscape of the 'Huertgen Forest
Migrating Concepts
The Bracero Program (1942–64), a bilateral agreement to regulate labor migration between the United States and Mexico, oversaw more than four million contracts enabling Mexican men to work “temporarily” in the United States. Historians of the Mexico-US borderlands and of global migration have interpreted the program through hemispheric as well as broader imperial lenses. Yet this article shows that the program’s foundational ideas emerged from tw…
Disputed (Non-)Belonging: Migrant Agency in the European Displacement Crisis 1945–56
This article revisits the handling of ‘Displaced Persons’ in the aftermath of the Second World War by institutions like the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, the International Refugee Organization, and local authorities in Western Germany. Based on a case study, we focus on the categorization of marginal groups within the DP population, namely the production of ‘the Muslim element’ as a cipher for forced migrants read as no…
The Agency of Forced Migrants: Historical Perspectives
This introduction sets out the thematic and methodological framework of a special issue on historical refugee agency in the aftermath of the Second World War. It situates the volume within historiographical debates that move beyond narratives of passive victimization, instead foregrounding how refugees actively shaped their lives and the regimes that sought to govern them. The central question is how forced migrants exercised personal, proxy, and…
Producing Integration: The Translation of Non/Belonging in Germany and the United States
This essay examines how the concept of integration has been produced, translated, and institutionalized in Germany and the United States as a key element of policy frameworks that migranticize some people and, thus, translate them as outsiders. By combining conceptual history and translation theory, we analyze how the meaning of integration has evolved within academic and political discourse, tracing its emergence as a key category in migration g…
Displaced person(s): The Production of a Powerful Political Category
Political science (6 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Archaeological Research and Protection (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Bureaucracy (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · German Colonialism and Identity Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works)