The Impacts of Assimilation: Concepts of Citizenship in Germany.

What factors aid an immigrant group in assimilating into a new country? How much does education, command of the countries main language and ethnicity and background come into play? How does the promise of citizenship and or naturalization play into the speed that one becomes an active member of society? In order to answer these questions, I will examine the immigration and assimilation of Russians into Germany. Russian immigrants to Germany are separated by their ethnicity as a Russian, namely the divide is between Ethnic Russians of Russian decent, Ethnic Germans from Russia and Russian Jews. Each group has faced various issues while immigrating to Germany, all of which will be addressed in this paper. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]